Newborn drug testing by race, ethnicity before and after recreational cannabis legalization

JAMA Network Open

2023-03-08

(Press-News.org) About The Study: Researchers found in this examination of newborn drug testing at a Midwestern academic medical center before and after statewide legalization of recreational cannabis that clinicians ordered newborn drug tests more frequently for Black newborns when no drug testing was done during pregnancy. These findings call for further exploration of how structural and institutional racism contribute to disproportionate testing and subsequent Child Protective Services investigation, surveillance, and criminalization of Black parents.

Authors: Lauren Oshman, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, is the corresponding author.

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