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Mother Looses Newborn Son Over Drug Testing "Mistake"

A California woman, Noel Lujan, who was given a sedative during labor lost custody of her newborn son and other children for three months when her baby, Daniel, failed a drug test. Lujan was forbidden to breast-feed Daniel or to be alone with the boy or her other three children. She also had to take anti-drug classes and pass hair follicle and urine tests, even though she continued to insist that she did not use drugs.

"It was horrible," she told The Sacramento Bee as she cradled her son at her parents’ home. "The whole three months, they were telling me I was a drug addict, that I was in denial."

Article Taken from November Coalition "The Razor Wire" March/April 2000