The information comes from the National Board of Health and Welfare and shows that even Malmö had fewer young people between the ages of 15 and 29 who died in overdoses between the years 2015-2019, calculated in absolute numbers.

According to statistics, drug mortality in total in all age groups has increased sharply since the early 1990s.

SVT nyheter has tried to find out if it is possible to see any pattern when it comes to deaths among young people, and has received help from, among others, the Forensic Medicine Agency in Linköping to analyze.

- I have looked at data for Umeå and see that it is mainly about what we classify as accidents, but do not really see anything that directly stands out, states research strategist Robert Kronstrand.

Hard to draw conclusions

What he can say is that in the case of drugs that caused or contributed to death in accidents, pregabalin is at the top (24%), then buprenorphine (19%), and then methadone (14%).

Pregabalin is an antiepileptic drug with the potential for abuse, which was classified as a drug a few years ago.

Following questions from SVT, the police have also taken out analytical answers from those years in order to form an opinion.

- I see that there are many different medications and some cases where fentanyl is involved, but I find no common thread and can not draw any conclusions, says preliminary investigation leader Joachim Lundberg.

Region Västerbotten ranks seventh in the country

During these years, Skellefteå had the equivalent of 6 deaths in overdoses.

With regard to the rest of the county, the situation is more unclear because the National Board of Health and Welfare does not disclose information at the municipal level where the deaths are fewer than three.

But in total for the region Västerbotten, there are 28 deaths (which places the county in 7th place in the list of regions with the most deaths) and we have previously reported on the situation in Vilhelmina.

What many SVT news stories have to say is that young people today are more drug liberal and that they can try anything.

But research today can not show that this is really the case.

The field group in Umeå works preventively with young people up to the age of 21 and does not see the problem with overdoses, but rather how the situation has changed.

In the clip above, fielder Mehrzad Solgy explains using a parable of cows.