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

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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