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Colorado hospitals don’t have to report newborns who test positive for drugs as child abuse. Is the law doing what it intended?

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Colorado hospitals don't have to report newborns who test positive for drugs as child abuse cases. In the four years since that change went into effect, referrals to child protective services have dropped by a quarter. The intention was to keep families together. But hospitals struggle with how to support mothers with substance use disorder.

Meg Wingerter, health reporter at the Denver Post has checked in on the change. She spoke with Ryan Warner.