What Next | Should Hospitals Drug Test New Moms?

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In an ongoing opioid epidemic, hospitals drug testing new mothers and their babies has an intuitive logic. But applied unequally, rife with false positives, and prone to disrupting those important early weeks, is it a best practice? Guest: Shoshana Walter, investigative reporter for The Marshall Project Want more What Next? Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to What Next and all your other favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the What Next show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, Ethan Oberman, and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's a lot to keep new parents awake at night.
0:04.0	But it won't be the prices at ASDA's Baby and Toddler event, starting from the 21st of April,
0:09.0	including the MAM anti-collic bottle set down from £38 to 2498,
0:13.4	and the newbie rapid cool bottle maker down from £40 to 2488.
0:17.5	Plus, for more exclusive offers, sign up to Asda rewards baby and toddler club that's asda price
0:23.1	select a source and light subject to availability as the reward requires app and registration
0:26.8	one membership per person full tease and sees asda.com slash rewards slash terms
0:30.0	goals it's bed top bed time one more more, Ray! I'm almost done.
0:38.2	Okay, kiddos.
0:39.0	That's enough.
0:39.6	Time's up.
0:40.3	On to the app.
0:41.5	Your Wi-Fi is going off.
0:43.3	Going off.
0:44.3	Off.
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1:05.1	For a few years now, journalist Shoshana Walter has been obsessed with a test. A test a lot of people get,
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