Energy

News item 02/17/11
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Energy Department's inspector general says Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California failed to keep track of samples of dangerous drugs, including cocaine, amphetamines, opium and black tar heroin. Some drugs were missing. ..
...Some employees at Livermore, one of the federal government's top science labs, handle as many as 42 different kinds of dangerous drugs. They are required under federal law to track their use closely. The drugs are used for bio-medical research and forensic science, and in the lab's health clinic for the treatment of workers there.
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Well I guess we now see how the Energy Department got its name.
But there's a statement in that article that gets me. "...and in the lab's health clinic for the treatment of workers there".
What?
The treatment of workers there?
Black tar heroin?
Opium?
Cocaine?
Meth?
Treatment?
Boy do I have the wrong job.