Drugs

The following articles have been tagged with "Drugs":

Swedish Paralympic curler fails drug test

Sport: 20 Mar 10
Glenn Ikonen, a member of Sweden's Paralympic curling team, has been issued with a two-year suspension for failing a drugs test as his teammates secure their place in the finals in Vancouver. READ »

Police bust record studio cannabis ring

National: 9 Mar 10
Stockholm police have busted a network of cannabis growers. One of the suspects is a record producer who cultivated the plants in his studio. READ »

The animal horror picture show

Lifestyle: 2 Mar 10
If you go down to the woods today, you'll probably encounter nothing more dangerous than a mushroom that's lost it's magic or bombardment from an avian bottom. But the fear of marauding beasts still haunts the Swedish psyche, as Ben Kersley discovers. READ »

Hemp farmer wins state pay out

Society: 26 Feb 10
A hemp farmer in Halland in western Sweden has won a court ruling stating that his crop was illegally seized by the Swedish state. The man has been awarded 10,000 kronor compensation after his ten year legal battle. READ »

Theft of deadly medicine prompts 'catastrophe' concerns

National: 24 Feb 10
The theft of an extremely strong sedative from a Lund hospital has caused alarm. On the street the drugs could have catastrophic consequences with one ampoule enough to kill 50 men. READ »

Swedish pensioner hid drugs in porcelain dog

Society: 23 Feb 10
A woman in Malmö is suspected of trying to boost her pension by selling drugs. When police raided her home they found two kilogrammes of amphetamines hidden in a faux gold porcelain dog. READ »

Nine-year-old sold drugs to Malmö police officer

National: 18 Feb 10
A nine-year-old boy in Malmö has been caught trying to sell a bag of amphetamines to an undercover police officer. His father has been arrested for using his young son as a drugs courier. READ »

Swedes develop Huntington's medicine

Science & Technology: 5 Feb 10
A Swedish biotechnology firm has developed a new medicine which provides hope for sufferers of Huntington's disease. READ »

AstraZeneca to axe jobs despite profit rise

Business & Money: 28 Jan 10
Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca plans to slash 8,000 more jobs worldwide by 2014, continuing its efforts to cut costs despite rising profits, the company announced on Thursday. READ »

School to start testing students for drugs

National: 26 Jan 10
A high school in south central Sweden plans to go ahead with drug testing on students, despite criticism from the national education agency. READ »

Police raid uncovers Aladdin's cave of stolen goods

National: 25 Jan 10
A police raid in southern Sweden has led to the discovery of a dazzling array of stolen goods that includes everything from fittings for an entire kitchen to a spiral staircase. READ »

No one safe from vomiting bug: study

National: 24 Jan 10
A new study from Linköping University suggests the so-called winter vomiting bug is far more infectious than previously thought. READ »

Painkillers fly off Swedish store shelves

National: 22 Jan 10
In the first two months of trading after the government overhaul of pharmacies in Sweden, supermarkets and petrol stations reaped around 10 percent of the non-prescription drug market. READ »

Swedish customs crack cocaine gang plan

National: 22 Jan 10
Customs officers in Gothenburg have unravelled a scheme that saw cocaine being smuggled into the country from Costa Rica. The gang used stolen identification from pensioners and the disabled to receive drug parcels. READ »

Sick leave dominates first election year debate

Politics: 20 Jan 10
Sweden's two political blocs each set out their stalls on Wednesday in the first parliamentary debate of 2010, with sickness benefits proving the main bone of contention. READ »

Private pharmacies return to Sweden

Business & Money: 18 Jan 10
The first private pharmacy since 1971 opened for business in Sweden on Sunday following an inauguration by Swedish Health and Social Affairs minister Göran Hägglund. READ »

AstraZeneca to acquire French Novexel

Business & Money: 24 Dec 09
On Wednesday, AstraZeneca announced a $350 million deal for the purchase of French antibiotics manufacturer Novexel. The acquisition will boost the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceuticals giant's portfolio of anti-infection drugs. READ »

Dozens arrested in Swedish doping raid

National: 9 Dec 09
Swedish police have arrested 40 people in a nationwide doping raid, according to a statement. READ »

Swedish concern over Cocaine energy drink

Society: 23 Nov 09
The Swedish Consumer Agency has wasted no time in condemning the planned launch of a new energy drink marketed by a company from Helsingborg and trading under the name Cocaine. READ »

Teen convicted for killing 16-year-old girl

National: 23 Nov 09
A 17-year-old boy is to serve three years in secure juvenile care after being convicted for the murder of a teenage girl near Borås in western Sweden last summer. READ »

Arrests made in global drug ring raid

National: 21 Nov 09
Three people have been arrested in Stockholm and held on suspicion of the illegal sale of prescription drugs, including diet pills and impotence treatment, as part of a international police operation. READ »

Two more held as police look for second pilot

National: 19 Nov 09
Prosecutors on Thursday requested remand hearings for two more men suspected of involvement in the dramatic helicopter robbery of a cash depot south of Stockholm. READ »

Shock therapy on the rise in Sweden: report

Society: 18 Nov 09
Swedish hospitals are increasingly turning to electroshock therapy to treat depression, but have failed to adequately warn patients about the risk for memory loss associated with the treatment, a new investigation reveals. READ »

Addict's death leads to fines for civil servant

National: 17 Nov 09
A manager within Gothenburg social services has been convicted for refusing to allow a 24-year-old drug addict into institutional care. The addict later died from an overdose. READ »

Bankers blindsided by con artist's creamy cake

Society: 16 Nov 09
A well-dressed Swedish fraudster treated bank employees to cake as thanks for helping him make off with 12 million kronor ($1.75 million) in cash and gold. He has now been sentenced to eight years in prison. READ »

Sweden completes pharmacy sell-off

Business & Money: 9 Nov 09
Sweden has secured buyers for some 465 pharmacies up for sale as part of the demonopolization of the country's retail drug market. READ »

Government official held for drugs offences

National: 8 Nov 09
A senior administrative officer at the Government Offices has been detained for serious drugs offences. The man was remanded into custody on Friday together with two other men. READ »

Annika Östberg 'not ready' for life out of prison: prosecutor

National: 4 Nov 09
Annika Östberg, who was recently transferred from the United States to Sweden to serve out a lifetime prison sentence, isn’t yet ready to re-enter society, according to prosecutors. READ »

ICA announces in-store pharmacy plans

Business & Money: 9 Oct 09
Swedish retailer ICA has announced plans to open 100 pharmacies across the country. The first stores will open in the spring of 2010 and will sell both prescription and non-prescription drugs. READ »

Masturbating trucker charged with reckless driving

National: 9 Oct 09
A German truck driver who was busy playing with his joystick when he flipped his rig in western Sweden in September, has been charged with reckless driving and assault. READ »

Doctor vindicated in newborn's death

National: 6 Oct 09
There was nothing wrong with the care given to a newborn baby who died in September of last year at Astrid Lindgren’s Children’s Hospital, according to a report on the incident. READ »

Trucker flips his rig after masturbating while driving

National: 24 Sep 09
A German truck driver who just couldn't get enough of himself admitted he was masturbating at the time his truck crashed on a road near Borås in western Sweden on Wednesday. READ »

Swedish woman arrested over drug-stuffed hairbrushes

National: 23 Sep 09
A 22-year-old woman from Jönköping in central Sweden was arrested in Brazil at the weekend with more than two kilogrammes of cocaine hidden in several hairbrushes. READ »

Swedes drinking more smuggled liquor

Society: 8 Sep 09
Swedes are buying less beer abroad, but are consuming twice as much smuggled liquor compared to the first half of 2008, according to a new report. READ »

Ica and Apoteket discuss in-store pharmacies

Business & Money: 24 Aug 09
Swedish state-owned pharmacy chain Apoteket has confirmed that it plans to cooperate with supermarket chain Ica over the in-store sale of non-prescription and prescription drugs. READ »

Prison for Stockholm counterfeiting ring

National: 22 Aug 09
A Swedish court on Friday sentenced six men to prison for their involvement in a major counterfeiting ring specializing in fake euro and dollar notes. READ »

Russia denies rumours of Arctic Sea sightings

National: 15 Aug 09
The Russian embassy in Cape Verde denied rumours that the Arctic Sea, a cargo ship that disappeared off the coast of Sweden at the end of July, had been sighted near the islands off the west coast of Africa. READ »

Presidency condemns Iran executions

Politics: 6 Aug 09
The Swedish EU presidency has spoken out against Iran's recent execution of 24 people by hanging. READ »

ADHD common among adopted kids: study

Science & Technology: 6 Aug 09
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is much more common among children adopted from abroad than among those born in Sweden. Those at highest risk for the disorder have been adopted from Eastern Europe, according to a new study. READ »

Couple sues municipality for Hultsfred 'inferno'

Society: 1 Aug 09
A couple from Hultsfred in southern Sweden is demanding 38,000 kronor ($5,000) in compensation from the local municipality to cover 19 years worth of disturbances associated with town's annual music festival. READ »

Swine flu Brit flown to Sweden for care

Science & Technology: 24 Jul 09
A gravely ill pregnant woman from Britain who is suffering from the swine flu is in Sweden for treatment due to a lack of specialist beds in Britain. READ »

Anders Borg: Sweden's long-haired maverick minister

Analysis & Opinion: 22 Jul 09
With Anders Borg, Sweden’s pony-tailed Minister of Finance, now helping the EU navigate through the global economic slump, the AFP’s Marc Preel takes a look back at the rise of this self-described pragmatist. READ »

Pandemic fears prompt new flu guidelines

Science & Technology: 15 Jul 09
Swedish health officials have revised their strategy for dealing with a swine flu pandemic, arguing that it is no longer realistic to focus resources on preventing a major outbreak that is becoming increasingly inevitable. READ »

Subsidize Viagra to ensure quality of life: Swedish court

Society: 10 Jul 09
Arguing that having sex is essential to a reasonable quality of life, a Swedish court has ordered local authorities to subsidize a 30-year-man’s prescription for the potency drug Viagra. READ »

Agency reacts to nuke plant safety lapses

Science & Technology: 7 Jul 09
Safety officials in Sweden may put one of the country’s nuclear power plants under special supervision following a number of safety violations. READ »

Sweden's pharmacy monopoly finished

Society: 1 Jul 09
Sweden’s state-run pharmacy monopoly ended on Wednesday, paving the way for new entrants into the market for drug sales and for the eventual sale of non-prescription drugs in other retail outlets. READ »

Kilo of cocaine washes up on Swedish beach

National: 19 Jun 09
A kilogramme of cocaine in a well-sealed package has washed ashore on the Swedish west coast. READ »

Gothenburg court convicts trio for heroin smuggling

National: 17 Jun 09
Three men have been convicted and given lengthy prison sentences for their roles in a heroin smuggling operation. READ »

Mud, sun and Neil Young: The Local's festival survival tips

Lifestyle: 16 Jun 09
Stuart Roberts traipsed through the mud at Stockholm’s ‘Where the Action is’ to compile this season’s summer festival survival guide. READ »

Confession in killing of teenage girl

National: 10 Jun 09
The 16-year-old boy suspected in the weekend murder of a 15-year-old girl in Stureby south of Stockholm confessed to manslaughter on Wednesday and has been remanded in custody. READ »

Reporter fired over Hells Angels contacts

Society: 4 Jun 09
The Expressen newspaper has sacked its US correspondent following revelations that he had close contact with the former leader of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang in Sweden, Thomas Möller. READ »

Fury over ailing man's botched deportation

National: 4 Jun 09
Swedish migration authorities have come in for scathing criticism following a decision to deport a man so ill with Parkinson’s disease that his home country of Nigeria refused to grant him entry. READ »

Sweden requests return of 'emaciated' jailed socialite

National: 1 Jun 09
Sweden has requested the repatriation of 24-year-old Charlotte Lindström, jailed for four years in March 2008 for plotting to kill witnesses in her boyfriend's drugs trial, as fears for her health mount. READ »

Woman nearly drowned in unprovoked assault

National: 30 May 09
A woman was attacked on a beach outside Kungsbacka yesterday by a man who struck her and then repeatedly forced her under the water. The man was later detained on suspicion of attempted manslaughter. READ »

Hillevi Larsson: an egalitarian voice from the south

Analysis & Opinion: 28 May 09
It was a high school’s broken ventilation system that started Hillevi Larsson’s career in politics – something she now calls a fortunate series of events, which drastically affected her life. READ »

Convict kills wife while on temporary release

National: 22 May 09
A man in his seventies who was on temporary release court ordered psychiatric care has been arrested after confessing to killing his wife in a suburb north of Stockholm. READ »

Man convicted in teen suicide rape case

National: 18 May 09
A 42-year-old man charged with sex offences against a 15-year-old girl who committed suicide prior to the trial was sentenced to three years imprisonment by a Jönköping court on Monday. READ »

Adam Tensta: Sweden's great hip-hop hope

Lifestyle: 13 May 09
Sweden's rising hip-hop star Adam Tensta talks to The Local's Majsan Boström about bright musical prospects, growing up in a tough Stockholm neighbourhood, and recording in the same studio as boyhood idol Michael Jackson. READ »

Is rape rampant in gender-equal Sweden?

Analysis & Opinion: 11 May 09
A recent European Commission report identifying Sweden as the rape capital of Europe should be treated with a healthy dose of scepticism, argues sociologist Laura Agustín. READ »

Stockholm police make two huge cocaine busts

National: 8 May 09
In two raids carried out in the span of just a few weeks, Stockholm County police seized nearly as much cocaine as was confiscated in the entire country in all of 2008. READ »

Swede 'probably' infected with swine flu

Science & Technology: 4 May 09
Swedish health officials reported on Sunday a 'probable' first case of swine flu, but were unable to confirm it definitively because the sample contained a very small amount of the virus. READ »

Swedish council draws blood to track alcohol use

National: 24 Apr 09
Sundsvall council in northern Sweden is demanding liver tests from prospective employees to ensure sound alcohol habits. Unions have reacted angrily to the news. READ »

10-year-old uncovers large drugs stash in Borås

National: 13 Apr 09
A ten-year-old boy uncovered a large stash of illicit drugs while out playing over the Easter weekend in the southern Swedish town of Borås. READ »

Man freed as teenage rape victim commits suicide

National: 10 Apr 09
Just hours before a 15-year-old girl was set to give evidence against a 42-year-old man suspected of raping her, she committed suicide. The man will no longer stand trial for the rape. READ »

Gang leader studies fraud law in prison

Society: 1 Apr 09
While imprisoned for serious drugs offences, Andreas Olsson, the leader of the Bandidos organized crime gang in Stockholm, has been studying courses in financial criminal law at the taxpayer's expense. READ »

Swedish police struggle to stop pre-teen drug dealers

National: 30 Mar 09
Police in Linköping in central Sweden have picked up a 12-year-old boy for trying to sell hashish on school grounds. READ »

Swedish police smash Balkan drugs ring

National: 26 Mar 09
Thirty-seven people have so far been held in custody as part of a crackdown on an international drugs ring with ties to the Balkan region, police in western Sweden revealed on Thursday. READ »

Swede in US school exchange nightmare

Education: 23 Mar 09
Swedish international education company EF has been ordered to pay 10,000 kronor ($1,200) to a high school student from Stockholm who was initially housed with criminals during an academic exchange programme in the United States. READ »