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Odessa mother warns of drugs in Soviet Union
A reader from Odessa describes her sons Nikolai and Pavel trapped by drug use. Prison failed to stop the addiction and hospitals lack medicines. She urges Soviet clinics, armed guards on poppy fields, and wider state action as a looming harvest threatens more addicts.
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