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Should Hospitals Drug Test New Moms?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 31 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

I'm making a robot head with an Amazon box.

0:03.0

I've painted it silver and Daddy helped me make it.

0:05.0

At Amazon, we're actually using paper bags for more of our deliveries.

0:09.0

And now I'm making a paper hot air balloon and I even made a little brown basket

0:13.0

and I'm making a dog that looks just like Monty.

0:16.0

Just one of the ways we've reduced the weight of our packaging by more than 40% since 2015,

0:20.0

which is still good for playtime.

0:22.6

Mom, where's the scissors?

0:25.7

To learn more, visit aboutamason.com.com.

0:27.9

U.K. forward slash sustainability.

0:30.6

In late August 1992,

0:33.6

Randy Weaver and his family were refusing to come down

0:36.5

from the remote Idaho mountaintop where they lived.

0:39.6

Weaver, a fugitive on a federal firearms charge, has been holed up in a cabin near Naples for more than a year.

0:45.4

The government thought Randy Weaver was a dangerous, possibly violent extremist.

0:50.7

Randy and his wife Vicky thought the government was an agent of Satan on earth.

0:55.7

When it was all over, three people were dead, and the government had spent millions of dollars to catch one man.

1:02.6

We'll find out why the siege at Ruby Ridge unfolded the way it did, and think about some of the questions it raises.

1:09.5

What should we do about white supremacists?

1:12.9

Why has the story of Ruby Ridge become an enduring myth for the far right?

1:17.3

And whose fault was it anyway?

1:21.1

Subscribe to Standoff What Happened at Ruby Ridge in Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

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