Pubdate: Tue, 26 Jan 1999
Source: ITAR-TASS (Russia)
Copyright: 1999 ITAR-TASS.

DRUGS MAKING WAY INTO NUCLEAR SECTOR OCCUPATIONS.

OZERSK (Chelyabinsk region), January 26 (Itar-Tass) - Drugs are making a
way into most serious of occupations.

A police spokesman told Itar-Tass on Tuesday that a worker of Ozersk's
Mayak plant was detained with ten doses of heroin on him.

Ozersk is a closed town near Chelyabinsk that serves the chemical factory
Mayak, the firstling of the Soviet nuclear industry.

The detained man, a worker of one of Mayak's productions, owned up to his
regular using and peddling drugs.

After a while, police revealed a worker of another closed factory who was
found to store a batch of raw opium.

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