Police alarm: High school students high on cocaine at school

For a year now, every six weeks the police's street laying group has been carrying out efforts against schools in Gothenburg, both high school and high school. There the group meets students who are affected by heavy drug preparations such as tramadol, amphetamine and cocaine.

With the experience of the efforts, together with information from drug habit surveys, the social service, Mini-maria and principals, the police conclude that students today use heavier drugs in school than before.

- There are individuals at every school in the center who are involved in this, says Robin Nilsson.

According to the police chief, the drug is used partly because of mental ill-health and that the students themselves usually report stress as a factor and that they feel pressured for the school results.

- It's an explanation they usually give, says Robin Nilsson.

- There are no intellectual arguments from young people today, they go to Flashback and read about how harmless cannabis is and that alcohol is worse.

The chief of police believes that drug sales have escalated in Sweden and that several measures are needed to overcome the situation.

- We need better legislation, we need to be better at collaborating with other authorities, we need to be faster with earlier efforts when it comes to young people. And we have to have much better border protection than we have today because there are a lot of drugs smuggled in, he says.

Robin Nilsson also believes that the increase in street violence is a consequence of the increased drug sales.

- There are millions of incomes for some criminal networks in the field of drugs. When you notice that someone is trying to twist that cake, you are able to use serious force to assert their business area and we can see that with shootings and blasts in all major cities in Sweden, says Robin Nilsson.