686 people died with drugs in your body in 2014 – more than ever.
In the Echo lördagsintervju tells public health Gabriel Wikström on what he wants to do about the problem – and that he himself never tested the drugs.
“But I have been in the vicinity of the drugs,” he says.
The drug-related death rates have risen for a long time in Sweden. Last year died in 686 persons with drugs in the body, an increase of 96 cases only compared with 2013.
at the same time, the discussions internationally about the legalization of certain drugs, such as cannabis. Something that has been carried out in Uruguay, Portugal and several states in the united states.
– In Sweden, the overwhelming majority of rejection to the drug in all its forms, even among the young. We do not have the same problems as in the US and in Latin american countries, ” says Gabriel Wikström, in the Echo lördagsintervju, if a legalization here as well.
Sweden has the second highest number of drug-related deaths per capita in the whole of Europe – a doubling in ten years.
” It’s a terrible development. But we don’t let this only last for. We have made many efforts to address the drug-related mortality. We have invested in to make it easier for county councils to work with sprututbyte, ” he says.
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Gabriel Wikström: “Haschröken low dense”
But public health minister himself, who is 31 years old, myself have never tried drugs, ” he says.
” But I have been in the vicinity of the drugs. I lived for a time in Barcelona and studied Spanish as a young man. There were often haschröken dense on the dansställena.
SR: You have never been curious to try?
” I have never been curious, I don’t know why, I’ve probably thought it was silly simply, says public health Gabriel Wikström.
He also gets questions about their use of alcohol, and if he had been “really drunk some time”.
– Yes, absolutely.
“zero-vision in traffic is a good example”
In Portugal has not increased in the heavy abuse when it was decriminalized, rather than decreased the drug-related mortality significantly. Sweden has had a very repressive attitude in the question, and bet on eliminating narkotikaanvändandet.
Gabriel Wikström has, however, acknowledged that Sweden failed elements of the policy, and rhetorically taken a somewhat different path than its predecessors. It is now also in Sweden is more about harm reduction.
But political action has been slow.
“It takes a long time because so much was undone when I took office as minister,” he said in lördagsintervjun.
SR: Can a zero tolerance regarding narkotikadöden be up to date, which has been successful in the traffic area?
– the zero-vision in traffic is a good example of what needs to be done in this area. I am not just talking first-hand about the vision zero, without the need to have clear action plans involving various sectors of society. That’s the way it brought down the mortality rate of the traffic. Therefore, we have given a mandate to the Board of health, together with the Folkhälsomyndigheten developing such a plan. It should have been on the site a long time ago, but it will be presented in the spring.
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