She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad. Child Services Took Her Baby.

Susan Horton cuts open ice pops for her daughters at home in Cotati, California, in July 2024. Pregnant with her fifth child, Susan Horton had a lot of confidence in her parenting abilities. Then she ate a salad from Costco: an "everything" chopped salad kit with poppy seeds. When she went to the hospital to give birth the next day, she tested positive for opiates. Horton told doctors that it must have been the poppy seeds, but she couldn't convince them it was true.