ML20071L190

Comments on Proposed Rule 10CFR26 Re Relaxing Rule on Drug Testing of Employees Working at NPP

ML20071L190
Person / Time
Site:	Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	07/20/1994
From:	Przybyla R AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
References
FRN-59FR24373, RULE-PR-26 59FR24373-00004, 59FR24373-4, NUDOCS 9408030003
Download: ML20071L190 (2)

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Drug probe reaches Diablo By Dave Wilcox cials conducted an intemal investi- hospital emergency room repord Telegram Tribune gation of the allegations. . filed in court as part of the crimina i

• 0ur internal investigation con- case against Lakha. J AVILA BEACH - A formerDiablo .

cluded that there was a very small She had been brought in ar:

Canyon nuclear power plant employ. , numt ei of em loyees involved.". Ile ambulance.from her home .to theI ee . told authorities investigating a  !' $ said na coul n't say exactly how emergency room a day eadier {

Los Osos physician that her supervi. manyfocprivacy reasons. another report states, because on sor sold presen*ption painkillers from M O' W 0" Coope 6 aid neither McVicker nor abusing painkillers, the tmnk of his> car in the plant's _QtggMW Ny m 4 Opperman continue to work at the Employees with access to the parkinglot, plant. lie said Oppennan worked for plant are subjected to random drug l Lisa Opperman also told an inves- Her statements are included in a a firm that contracted with PaciSc tests.  ;

tigator that the same supervisor, 52-page report written by Senior Gas and Electric Co. Lakha, scheduled to be arraigned )

Robert McVicker, brought the dmgs Investigator Blair Sims that's filed in "The company takes it very seri- Aug.19 in Superior Court, was l into the plant and sold them to her, court. . . ously," Cooper said of alleged drug ordered by a judge nionday not toi Opperman is among witnesses Sims' report states he told John abuse. "Any employees that are dispense argy substance to patients interviewed during a state Consum- Jones, director of security for Diablo found using drugs will be taken cgre pending the outcome of his trial.

er Affairs investigatmn of Los Osos Canyon's owner, Pacific Gas and of.We don't take this lightly." Patient records seized from Lak-physician Rumi Lakha, who's facing Electric Co., about Oppermar's alle- Opperman overdosed while work- ha's of5ces show McVicker had been trial for criminal charges including gations, ing at Diablo Canyon on Aug.19,1993 one of his patients since early 1987, illegally prescribing narcotjes and Shawn Cooper, a spoksm&n for and was tr. ken to 1%nch Itospital insurance fraud. Diablo Canyon, said com; ay offi- Medical Center, according to a

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1993 con 5rmed that according to began Mieg heriAr-Sims' reportf Investigators se d t, alnkilleN and the musc%

po tl s of p p s' gn ti ed g several more sample-sized bottles 7 re5 led every otherweek for the next issued by at least 10 different physt- ,ine months. But she told the investi-pians, including Lakha. gator that the physician never took as

! McVicker is not charged sith any much as a blood pressum test fan he minal offense.

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d5W Mr M 6 gs prescrhedbyIsh the time Opperman entered a prescrip-

. tion drug addictina mcoveryprogram investigator's perman exhausted her report twomeek says, su when %p, last September, she was depending on her supervisor to sell her drugs. ca% ' '

"She said that he would bring the

$he said she was under the mDuene drugs to work and sellthem to her on Gf powerful painldliers while at work the job site at the power phmt," Sims and overdosed three times in August ,;

1993, the report shows, although its M kept "large amounts of hot clear where the overdoses oc- cdption drugs in the trunk of his purred- old 1992 Buick and charged her $80

. Opperman initially saw doctors for por 60 Darvocet and 60 Soma pills, an injury she suffered at Diablo accordmg to the report. Oppeman Canyon, where she worked as a said she popped the pills in the Diablo quaiity assurance inspector, accord- Canyon employees' parldng lot, wash-Ing to the report. ing ihem down with water from a ju,g

, She said she became addicted t icker kept in the front seat of his the pain medication and her doctor car.

began treating her for the addiction

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