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A Closer Look at Methamphetamine Use in the Queer Community
Reasons for Meth Use
There are various reasons why meth use has become more common within the LGBTQ+ community. Some individuals may turn to the drug as a means of coping with internalized homophobia, stigma, and discrimination.
Others may use meth to self-medicate for mental health issues like depression, anxiety, or trauma. Finally, because of heavy discrimination against the gay people, meth might be used as a way for people of the Diverse community to escape their everyday struggles. One of these may, for instance, be battling against society’s internalized homophobia.
Meth isn’t the only substance used as a coping mechanism by members of the Gay community. There are studies that show that there is a strong correlation between being gay and abusing alcohol, as an example.
Effects of Meth Use
Physical Effects
Meth use can hold severe consequences on an individual’s physical health. Some common physical effects incorporate tooth decay, weight impairment, and skin sores. Prolonged use may lead to more severe health issues like heart problems, stroke, and organ damage.
Mental Effects
Meth use can also
What Is It About Lgbtq+ Men and Crystal Meth?
By Jake Myers, MFT
Jake is a therapist at the Gay Therapy Center. He sees clients at the Hollywood Center in Los Angeles, and worldwide by phone and Skype.
When I look back on it all now, I recognize it was just going to be a matter of time. As a gay man coming of age in the prior 2000’s, of course it would make sense that in a fairly brief time-frame I would cross paths with the darkness known as crystal meth. While I had been drinking, smoking pot, and dabbling in psychedelics and other drugs since elevated school, I discovered meth when in college through the gay club scene. Coming from a tumultuous, repressed, and traumatizing family life, suddenly being in an accepting space with other gay men who encouraged me to be free, feel good, and not hide my sexual feelings was like a dream come true. The clubs felt like a new family had embraced me, and with that I would pretty much try anything that was put in front of me. Being in this environment was a steep in-and-of-itself, but when joint with the substances that were going around (ecstasy, GHB, meth, ketamine), I was truly flying for what felt like the first time.
After coming fr
What draws gay men to slamming: the rush, pleasure or kinship?
Gay and bisexual men living in the Netherlands reported intense rush, less sexual inhibition, pleasure and kinship among the perceived benefits of slamming in a master thesis titled ‘Meth, Sex, Health and Pleasure’ from Utrecht University.
Slamming is the intravenous injection of crystal methamphetamine (also known as crystal meth, tina and ice). Similar to chemsex involving different substances (including GHB/GBL, mephedrone, MDMA and, to a lesser extent, cocaine and ketamine), slamming can take place before or during sexual action to facilitate, prolong or enhance the sexual experience.
In the 2017 The European MSM Internet Survey (EMIS), 15% of gay, bisexual person and other men who have sex with men from 50 European countries reported ever having chemsex and over 10% had done so in the past 12 months. Monitoring these findings and increased concern around chemsex in the region, the EU’s Drug Strategy 2021-2025 included LGBTI+ people for the first time. It emphasises the importance of knowing the diversity of people who uses drugs but it only refers to the LGBTI+ community once in general and still does not ad
HIV Diagnosis Linked to Higher Risk of Meth Employ in Gay and Double attraction Men
People assigned male at birth who belong to a sexual or gender minority group were twice as likely to employ methamphetamine following an HIV diagnosis, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Methamphetamine employ has been a worry for gay and pansexual men for decades, said Brian Mustanski, PhD, the study’s lead author and director of the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH) and the Third Coast Center for AIDS Research.
“What we’re really trying to understand is the epidemiology of HIV, substance use and co-occurring mental health issues and also the risk and protective factors that help us understand why some youthful men develop these interconnected health issues more than others,” said Mustanski, who is also a professor of Medical Social Sciences.
Because previous research has shown a link between lowered dopamine signaling in HIV and the potential for substance use, Mustanski and his collaborators set out to investigate the connection further.
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