The judge sent her to jail for five days for failing the drug test. Six years before her arrest, Etowah County officials had embarked on an unprecedented crackdown on pregnant drug users.

Drug-using mothers often give birth to ... Babies born to mothers who smoke crack cocaine during pregnancy -- so-called ''crack babies'' -- usually have their own set of physical and mental ...

Those who prosecute pregnant drug users say they have everyone’s ... and they’ve all tested positive for crack. Where do you draw the line?” “Unless addicts are forced to stop, they ...

The patterns of prosecuting pregnant people for drug use trace back to the crack cocaine crisis in the ‘80s, when it was thought that in utero exposure to crack cocaine would lead to a ...

Methamphetamine (61% n = 23) and crack/cocaine (16% n = 6 ... Drug Use and Social Support Drug use during pregnancy also interacted with women's ability to resolve extrinsic barriers by ...

A federal medical advisory committee in 1993 urged health care providers who drug test pregnant patients to adopt the same rigorous standards. But amid the “crack baby” panic, the idea of ...

An FBI lab detected mifepristone and misoprostol — drugs commonly taken together to induce abortions — in homemade cookies ...

The hospital also created criteria for testing pregnant patients ... Hospitals first began routinely drug testing mothers in labor during the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic. The practice expanded during ...

State lawmakers approved a measure that aims to stop out-of-state doctors from prescribing abortion drugs like mifepristone ...

A SCOTS midwife took laughing gas meant for pregnant women  while looking after high-risk patients. Mariedh King was caught by her boss inhaling nitrous oxide – also known as ...

The law, named Act 246, classifies two common pregnancy medications, mifepristone and misoprostol, as controlled dangerous substances. The drugs have ... would help crack down on abortion pills ...