Cardiff's drug problem

Fourth worst in the UK.Swansea didn't even make the list.Another myth blown out the water,just like the Gypo slur.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ntres.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIbpt1aDFqM

The gypo slur came from the way the Jacks dressed back in the day compared to us lot. It was like stepping back in time going to the Vetch.

As for the drug problem, see it every day in Cardiff and something that needs to be tackled. Cardiffs like Edinburgh, the way the city looks and the reputation it has as a vibrant capital city papers over the cracks and the social problems that have existed for years here.

Never even made the list? There's only 5 places on it!

There's a top 5 list of 'measles' cases in next weeks edition.I'll expect a link from one of your lot.

Fourth worst in the UK.Swansea didn't even make the list.Another myth blown out the water,just like the Gypo slur.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ntres.html

Theres a difference between an "arrest" & just "letting them rot in their caravan"

You'll have to do better than that.Thats only recorded crime and not % users per 1000 of population where you beat us hands down.If theres one thing worse than a sniffing gypo-its a sniffing gypo that can read.

Never even made the list? There's only 5 places on it!

No,but your city did.

Never even made the list? There's only 5 places on it!

No,but your city did.

You'd expect a bigger city to have more crime. It doesn't go into detail either. The crimes could be dealing related, probably selling to your lot

Least the scum are getting caught though, whatever place they are in

Worked for brains a few years ago both in Swansea and Cardiff. In Swansea i had to keep the pub shut on a Saturday until they had handed out the methadone, which I used to watch them then swap for street drugs in the pub car park. In Cardiff it was usually coke or the occasional spliff. A bit of wd40 on the top of the toilet systern would soon sort that out lol.

Merthyrs got a drug problem in that the quality if the coke is f*cking shit.

Places in Cardiff might have a drug problem.. But every one in Swansea lives on the streets. Even made a tv show about it or didn't u see it?? Probably coz there's no electric in that cardboard box you live in

f*cking hell your scraping the barrell for bites now

we sign a nobody from la liga for a couple of quid and the jack go into overload

All cities in the UK are shitholes including Swansea and Cardiff. There's a reason loads of MP's live in the country and travel into the city for work at the taxpayers expense.

These jibes are cringeworthy. Both full of smackheads.

You'd swear i wrote the article

I'm merely providing a link to a newspaper report.

I know Judkin Court, that's where all the jacks go to buy their drugs.

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You'd swear i wrote the article

I'm merely providing a link to a newspaper report.

To the daily mail - the cradle of statistical research.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01sbwl8

The cameras return to Swansea's streets to follow the desperate and moving stories of the homeless. We try and find out what has changed in the city which boasts the highest numbers of homeless people in Wales.

Shock documentary uncovers scale of heroin problem in Swansea

DIRECTORS of a new fly-on-the-wall documentary about heroin addicts in one of Wales’ biggest cities found children as young as 11 getting hooked on the drug.

DIRECTORS of a new fly-on-the-wall documentary about heroin addicts in one of Wales’ biggest cities found children as young as 11 getting hooked on the drug.

Swansea Love Story is an unflinching look at the underbelly of Dylan Thomas’ “ugly lovely town” where official figures has seen a 178% jump in registered heroin users over the past four years.

It shows a place where bags of deadly smack can be bought for as little a £10 a time and the rising numbers selling it on the streets can make up to £1,500 a day – but that’s not what attracted Andy Capper and Leo Leigh to make the documentary.

“We wanted to take those people, the types that most of us find ourselves crossing the road to avoid, and show that behind every one of them was a story about how they got to be that way – stories that need to be heard and understood,” said Capper, the London editor of edgy lifestyle magazine Vice.

“Me and Leo had been working on a series of short films called Rule Britannia and had done previous affectionate looks at notorious places like Blackpool.

“Then one of Leo’s mates, a photographer working with a drugs agency in South Wales, suggested we come and film there because of the huge rise in the amount of drugs in the area and because he knew of some really interesting characters.”

The end result of nearly five months of filming is a shocking, but also touching, study of addiction among youngsters driven to hard drugs by circumstance, whether it be unemployment, the inevitable cycle of having been brought up by addict parents, or sheer boredom and frustration.

And Capper was amazed at the reception they gave him.

“We told them we were only really there to observe, not to ask questions, and they were extremely happy to do it,” he said of the group of friends on which the film is based.

“I suppose outside of drug workers, other addicts or the police there’s no-one around to show them a friendly face or even look them in the eye.

“So they welcomed us – we were a novelty to them, I guess.”

But just how widespread and accessible heroin was to get hold of came as a huge shock to Capper.

“The stuff shifts for like £10 a bag, that’s pretty standard,” he said, shaking his head.

“What’s more, supply is driving the demand. And that doesn’t mean to say that more heroin is coming in from places like Bristol or Liverpool, just that more and more are selling it to make a living.

“Think about it,” Capper added. “Some dealers can earn up to £1,500 in one day selling smack, that’s a hell of a proposition to someone who’s unemployed and desperate.

“We spoke to a lot of ex-dealers, and one told us that children as young as 11 or 12 are taking it on a regular basis, and they’ll either beg or steal to get the money.”

Capper’s co-director Leo Leigh, son of Bafta-winning filmmaker Mike Leigh, said the core of Swansea Love Story was to show how those in such desperate situations actually ended up that way.

He cited the film’s central couple, homeless lovers Amy and Cornelius, whose sad back-story began when she – having been hooked on drugs and put to work in a massage parlour by her mum at the age of 14 – recently lost their baby.

That tragedy turned them both into alcoholics.

“Amy’s 18 now, Cornelius a bit older, and they are madly in love, homeless, and completely dependent on heroin and cheap cider,” Leigh said.

“But they’re very charismatic, with a lot to say.

“And because they had nowhere to live, we’d see them all the time, on the same streets and estates.

“Through them we wanted to show the reality of addicts’ lives and how mundane it is to them,” he added.

“For example, there’s one scene where they’re shooting up heroin behind a bin at 9.15 in the morning.

“To them it’s like making a cup of tea.”

Cardiff like any big city has a drug problem, its usually more like coke, e's bit of crack. lots of smack in jackland an we all know it. as for gypo's like someone else said its got nothing to do with the travelling communty, its your abysmal dress sense back in the casual days which was laughed at on a national level, you are well known for your gallini jumpes and white socks look.... with a nice tight pair of stonewash jeans

People are deluding thenselves if they think Cardiff hasnt got a smack problem.

Pointless point scoring because of the teams we support.

Both cities along with the rest of the UK has a drug problem.

People are deluding thenselves if they think Cardiff hasnt got a smack problem.

Pointless point scoring because of the teams we support.

Both cities along with the rest of the UK has a drug problem.

exactly
its just the jacks pathetically clutching at straws now that itsclear cardiff arent struggling in the transfre market
Fully expect waddle to bring up the soul crew attacking a jack OAP minibus myth

People are deluding thenselves if they think Cardiff hasnt got a smack problem.

Pointless point scoring because of the teams we support.

Both cities along with the rest of the UK has a drug problem.

100% spot on. Used to see drug use all the time when I was out in Cardiff unless I went to a tidier place and paid £3.50-4 a pint.

Britain has a terrible drinking and drug problem.

Weird thing is that address is a tiny little close of newish flats. Surely it can't be the centre of Cardiff's drug problems unless its one dealer who has been caught 250 times because he is dealing right near the police station?

Fourth worst in the UK.Swansea didn't even make the list.Another myth blown out the water,just like the Gypo slur.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ntres.html

If its where I think it is, and im sure it is. There were two flats dealing big amounts
of Charles. it was three fellers got nicked. I think the number of 'arrests' is confused
with the number of charges. Anyway, got any similar videos from Cardiff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HltCDdrjyPk

I work in a South Wales hospital and drugs are a big problem everywhere. Heroine, Coke, M-Cat, ete etc. Lot's of o/d patients end up in resus, get treated, are moved to a ward, and then shoot up in the hosptal toilets. I kid you not! It's a regular occurence.

lived in Bristol for a few years and it seemed much worse there, could see people shooting up in the park opp my flat.
Its big in Cardiff too, lost a few mates to it and close family had a massive problem with it. The governments way of dealing with it is an absolute joke. where the hell is judkin court? never ever heard of it?

This is all because drugs policy is decided by sheltered politicians who know nothing about drugs or addiction. If they would listen to scientists and social workers the problems could be reduced massively.

Whats amazing is that when facts are put up many of u becom diplomatic on the problem and how bad it is that nothing is done to help.
Last year I put up a similar reply to a tw*t claiming swansea is a junkie city and I have lost good mates to it and it was less diplomatic on that occasion.
You realy dont like facts do u.

Whats amazing is that when facts are put up many of u becom diplomatic on the problem and how bad it is that nothing is done to help.
Last year I put up a similar reply to a tw*t claiming swansea is a junkie city and I have lost good mates to it and it was less diplomatic on that occasion.
You realy dont like facts do u.

This is a football forum though.
The thread was started by a jack on a cardiff forum looking for bites