New mom has baby taken away after failing drug test — by eating poppy seed breadBy Joshua Rhett Miller
February 4, 2020 | 3:27pm
An Alabama mother had her newborn baby taken away from her after a drug-test detected traces of opiates in her system — from poppy seed bread she ate a day earlier, according to reports.
Rebecca Hernandez, of Huntsville, was given a drug test after giving birth at Crestwood Medical Center last Tuesday — and her son was swiftly removed after it came back positive for opiates, WAFF reports.
By the time a more official state laboratory test came back Friday stating she was clean, the new mother had lost three days with her new baby.
The original test turned out to be a “false-positive,†a result that Hernandez’s doctor attributed to the poppy seed bread she consumed on Monday, WAFF reports. ...
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