New mothers say they had to undergo devastating investigations after hospitals reported their false positive drug tests to child welfare agencies shortly after they gave birth. This report is ...

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A false positive test misidentifying baking soda as a mixture of fentanyl and horse tranquilizer is what landed a Pennsylvania man in a notorious New York prison for two weeks, the state Attorney ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is reviewing hundreds of state parole hearings to see if any inmates who were denied parole were rejected because of faulty drug tests.

A new mother from Alabama is warning pregnant patients after she says eating an "everything bagel" for breakfast before giving birth to her second child upended her family last spring. It all stemmed ...

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Faulty drug tests given to thousands of California prisoners gave false results for opiates Prison advocates worry that the false positive results have tainted the parole decision for inmates.

Thousands of inmates wrongly tested positive for opiate use inside California state prisons last year because of a laboratory mistake, and civil rights attorneys now worry many of them could be denied ...