Fresh out of high school I got a job working in the same grocery store as my then girlfriend (now wife), i had to take a drug test to finish the hiring process. I stopped at the grocery store to grab the paperwork and as I walked past the bakery they had fresh poppy seed bagels, my absolute favorite. I grabbed one and then went the next morning for my drug test, failed for opiates.

There is a way around it. Check again after 72h.

Yep. Authorities have basically just refused to admit how unreliable drug tests are, no matter how many times it's proven

It's standard war on drugs tactics... They don't care how many people they hurt, gotta keep that slave prisoner population up

There was a MythBusters episode too!

Someone knew there was a drug test and flooded the office with Poppy so they wouldn't get caught.

Might've been the muffin or it might've been the Fentanyl Friday team building exercise. We'll never know!

Started to become common during the moral panic around drugs in the 80s and 90s here in the US. I don’t know how it’s legal but this country is very backwards.

They should - but only for medical reasons kept confidential. It's important info for the doctor for the health of the kid. But not the cops.

According to this LA Times article, they weren't testing everyone; they tested this woman because she skipped her prenatal visits. She did that because she lived with people who were at high risk from COVID-19. It also says she provided a urine sample voluntarily, but wasn't told it was for drug testing.

It does seem reasonable to me that if a hospital had good reason to believe a woman was using opioids while pregnant, they would get child protective services involved. It does not seem to me that missing some appointments with as good an explanation as she gave here should be grounds to perform a drug test without the patient's consent. Child protective services also shouldn't be relying on a test with such poor specificity.

There have even been cases where they have given women pain meds before the test, then called CPS when she tested positive for those same pain meds.

Anything to punish pregnant women.

Because if a pregnant woman is on something chemically addictive, the baby is too, and that’s important to know when delivering a baby.

Or maybe we should stop drug testing people and exit the fascist fucking police state.

No, the contrary: everyone should increase false positives to render these tests worthless & make laughingstocks of contemptible processes depending on them.

She had a salad, an “everything” salad. Poppy seeds are just a minor everyday ingredient and it would to just not even think of them. Even knowing. Even being warned.

Warning is not enough.