https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The number of reported narcotics-related offences in Sweden has increased, with police saying drugs are on an upward trend in the country. https://www.thelocal.se/20180807/reported-drug-offences-in-sweden-increase-in-2018 Tue, 07 Aug 2018 09:34:07 +0200 reported-drug-offences-in-sweden-increase-in-2018 The number of drug-related deaths in Sweden declined last year, reversing a decade-long trend. https://www.thelocal.se/20180108/drug-related-deaths-down-in-sweden Mon, 08 Jan 2018 09:51:22 +0100 drug-related-deaths-down-in-sweden Malmö’s customs office is investigating its hitherto-largest narcotics seizure, after almost one tonne of cannabis and amphetamines were found in a truck that entered the country via the Öresund Bridge. https://www.thelocal.se/20170812/swedish-police-make-record-narcotics-seizure-in-malm Sat, 12 Aug 2017 16:31:01 +0200 swedish-police-make-record-narcotics-seizure-in-malm The Swedish government has launched an inquiry into why Sweden has among the highest number of drug-related deaths in the EU despite its zero-tolerance policy. https://www.thelocal.se/20160826/sweden-moves-to-combat-high-rate-of-drug-deaths Fri, 26 Aug 2016 09:53:22 +0200 sweden-moves-to-combat-high-rate-of-drug-deaths An overwhelming majority of Swedes think illicit drugs should remain banned, despite the legalization of narcotics being the subject of heated debate in recent years, a fresh poll has suggested. https://www.thelocal.se/20151123/nine-out-of-ten-swedes-favour-illicit-drugs-ban Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:08:43 +0100 nine-out-of-ten-swedes-favour-illicit-drugs-ban The post office has become one of the first lines of defence for Swedish Customs in their fight against the growing trend of buying narcotics online. https://www.thelocal.se/20130102/45382 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 14:40:00 +0100 45382 The Swedish Supreme Court (Högsta Domstolen) has become more lenient when sentencing drug dealers, a trend that worries police who say it endangers their counter-narcotics work. https://www.thelocal.se/20130101/45360 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:01:00 +0100 45360 Sweden has opened its first rehabilitation centre for abusers of khat, the African leaves that users chew to get an amphetamine-like effect. https://www.thelocal.se/20121207/44906 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:09:00 +0100 44906 Sniffer dogs will be used to search schools in Landskrona municipality in southern Sweden after officials concluded that “attitudes toward narcotics have become more liberal”. https://www.thelocal.se/20120303/39472 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 07:57:00 +0100 39472 A man believed to be carrying 200 kilogrammes of the amphetamine-like substance khat in his car crashed into a guardrail after trying to flee Swedish customs officials at the Öresund bridge on Friday morning. https://www.thelocal.se/20111230/38234 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:32:00 +0100 38234 A doctor from the north of Sweden was recently found to have offered drugs for sexual favours to women with a history of drug addiction. https://www.thelocal.se/20111021/36892 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:14:00 +0200 36892 A 43-year-old man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for organising the smuggling of close to half a ton of hashish, and over nine kilogrammes of amphetamine. https://www.thelocal.se/20110707/34800 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:26:00 +0200 34800 A 58-year-old Swedish man arrested following a suspected drug purchase has been cleared after officers discovered that the plastic bag he bought contained neither marijuana nor hashish. https://www.thelocal.se/20110620/34464 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:53:00 +0200 34464 A Swedish court has acquitted a woman of minor drugs offences after she claimed she had ingested the amphetamines in Denmark, where doing so is not a crime. https://www.thelocal.se/20110304/32392 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:50:00 +0100 32392 A 51-year-old man from Umeå in northern Sweden was sentenced to 10 years in prison for aggravated drug crimes involving 4 kilogrammes of opium, local media reported on Friday. https://www.thelocal.se/20110108/31318 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:13:00 +0100 31318 A team of Swedish forensic physicians have concluded that nine young people have died over the past year after having taken the legal drug Krypton. https://www.thelocal.se/20101229/31134 Wed, 29 Dec 2010 11:14:00 +0100 31134 A 57-year-old Swedish man who recently appealed his conviction for narcotics offences might now wish he had accepted his original sentence. https://www.thelocal.se/20101210/30746 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:11:00 +0100 30746 The use of cannabis among Swedish high school students is more common among those with university-educated parents, according to a new study published by the National Institute of Public Health (Statens folkhälsoinstitutet). https://www.thelocal.se/20101122/30366 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:58:00 +0100 30366 The cost of drug, alcohol and prescription medicine abuse amounts to 150 billion kronor ($22.4 billion) per annum in Sweden, according to an ongoing government inquiry. https://www.thelocal.se/20101102/29968 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:38:00 +0100 29968 Four cases of GHB overdose in Sundsvall over the weekend point to a growing worry among health care officials about the prevalence of the drug in Gothenburg and Sundsvall. https://www.thelocal.se/20090712/20606 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:32:00 +0200 20606