Nini Stoltenberg was a Norwegian television personality and sister of Jens Stoltenberg, former prime minister of Norway, and Camilla Stoltenberg, the director-general of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
17 Facts About Nini Stoltenberg
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Nini Stoltenberg was better known as a drug addict, and has been cited as such by Norwegian media on numerous occasions.
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Nini Stoltenberg has often been depicted as an unofficial spokesperson for Norwegian drug users.
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Nini Stoltenberg presented a harsh critique of Norwegian illegal drug politics and questioned whether the expert group of which she was a member really made any difference.
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Nini Stoltenberg grew up in Oslo as the youngest of three siblings.
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Nini Stoltenberg's parents are Thorvald Stoltenberg, former foreign minister of Norway and Karin Stoltenberg, a geneticist who has served, among other prominent positions, as state secretary.
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At the age of 17, Nini Stoltenberg attended a Bruce Springsteen concert, was pulled up on stage and danced together with the rock superstar.
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Nini Stoltenberg started out doing television work in 1992 when she co-hosted the TV3 show Pa tide with Ole Paus.
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Nini Stoltenberg made a short appearance, as herself, in an episode of the comedy television series Uti var hage, shown on Norwegian television in March 2008.
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Nini Stoltenberg witnessed two drug addicts in a fight in a cafe in Oslo when something fell out of the pocket of one of them.
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Nini Stoltenberg picked it up and saw that it was heroin.
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Nini Stoltenberg received opioid agonist treatment using methadone for her heroin addiction during a two-year period.
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Nini Stoltenberg refuted the notion that she started using drugs because she could not deal with the pressure of having such successful siblings.
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Nini Stoltenberg acknowledged that it is not uncommon among drug users to resent her relativistic perspective on drug use and rehabilitation.
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Nini Stoltenberg had a long-time relationship with Karl John Sivertzen from Odda, a former drug addict who was convicted of an armed bank robbery in the 1970s, and whose past Nini Stoltenberg described as a "virtual crime novel".
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Nini Stoltenberg and Sivertzen first met when she was admitted for detox and he was a therapist, and they became a couple 10 years later, after they met again at the home of a common acquaintance.
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Nini Stoltenberg died on 27 July 2014 after a long term illness.