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"Poppy seeds blamed for drug test failure" by Joe Mandak | Associated Press March 12, 2014
PITTSBURGH — A first-time mother who says she failed a drug test while in labor because she ate poppy seeds has sued a Pittsburgh hospital, saying officials defamed her and violated her doctor-patient confidentiality by sharing the results with a child welfare agency.
Rachael Devore, 31, who gave birth at Magee-Women’s Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center on June 24, contends that the hospital staff tested her urine while she was in labor and turned over the ‘‘positive’’ drug test to county caseworkers.
‘‘I just delivered and it’s supposed to be this beautiful, wonderful, happy time and I’m being accused of something that’s completely ridiculous,’’ Devore said. ‘‘To be accused of physically and purposely harming your child is a very tough accusation to swallow.’’
Related:
“We want [the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families] to be out of our lives,”
said Lou Pelletier, speaking publicly for the first time since a gag
order was lifted in the case. “I don’t care whether it’s Connecticut,
Massachusetts. . . . Make them go away. They’ve done nothing but harm.”
Officials at DCF have stressed that a state judge, not the agency, made
the custody decision after court hearings. “Our goal has always been to
work with Justina and her parents,” Alec Loftus, a DCF spokesman, said Thursday."
Also see: Pelletier Parents Pissed
Judge to rule on Conn. girl’s custody by week’s end
They know how you feel.
Opiates like heroin are made from poppies, which is why the seeds can result in false positives on drug tests. But Devore said she did not realize what prompted the failed drug test until weeks later, when she bought the same kind of bread she had eaten the day before she went into labor and saw poppy seeds when she sliced into it.
She really devored that bread, huh?
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