On Monday, the trial at Ångermanland District Court began against a 57-year-old woman who is suspected to be a central figure in a drug raid in Ångermanland. She is charged with reselling large quantities of drug-classified drugs that she has obtained from prescriptions at the pharmacy. 

Previously convicted of drug crimes

This was revived when a man was found dead by an overdose in an apartment last spring. In the apartment were jars of drug-classified drugs with the woman's name on it. 

The trial raises questions about the drug treatment of the 57-year-old woman who, as recently as two years ago, was convicted of drug offenses. She has been able to retrieve thousands of tablets of oxycontin, lyrica, stesolid and other resale drugs, according to the indictment. She has also been able to retrieve a liter with the cough medicine Cocillana-Etyfin containing morphine.

Found dead in the apartment

The traces of the woman's sale go to an apartment where a man is found dead last spring. The man has died of overdose. In the apartment, police find cans of drug-classified drugs with the woman's name on it.

The woman is retired and resides in a small town north of Härnösand.

- I have a lot of pain and pain and that is why I have used so much medicine. It has also happened that I bought tablets in a different way than through the pharmacy, the woman told me during the trial.

Recognized sales

At the hearing in Ångermanland District Court, she also admitted that she sold drugs to the man found dead in her apartment, but not in connection with his death.

- The day before he came to me and wanted to buy but then I saw that he was in poor condition so I said no. He must have taken the tablets anyway. A week later I was missing a cardboard box, she said in the interrogation.

Another dead man who died after an overdose figures on the edge of the investigation. In total, eleven people, most of them from the Harnosand district, are charged with drug trafficking in which the 57-year-old woman plays the lead role.

She was sentenced to prison as late as 2017 for having been driving another drug raid with about ten people involved.

Large "over-prescription" of drugs

Despite this, the woman has been able to obtain large quantities of drug-classified drugs from the pharmacy, among which several withdrawals were made the same day.

According to the indictment, drugs have since been resold. Businesses have been settled through text messages and large sums have been swishats.

The chief medical officer Martin Enander at Region Västernorrland believes that it was an over-prescription. He also states that her doctor had a conversation with the woman in an attempt to get her down on her drug use. According to the prosecutor, a doctor in the region must have been horrified when he saw how much medication the woman was taking.

The Swedish Forensic Agency has taken the woman out of maximum doses and in some cases more than the maximum dose, according to Fass.