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Colorado hospitals no longer required to report newborns who test positive for drugs, working to better support addicted moms

Number of families referred to child protective services for prenatal drug use down 25% since law changed 3 years ago

FILE – This Feb. 16, 2017 ...
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This Feb. 16, 2017 file photo shows newborn babies in the nursery of a postpartum recovery center in upstate New York.
DENVER, CO - MARCH 7:  Meg Wingerter - Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio.  (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
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Three years after Colorado changed the law so that doctors no longer had to report newborns testing positive for drugs as possible child abuse victims, the number of families referred to child protective services is down, but hospitals are still learning how best to support mothers battling addiction.
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