[this comes via rod rushing via his kickin tina blog, commenting on susan kingston's talk in chicago last week titled: "crystal meth uncensored: what the DEA and the gay media won't tell you"]
this meth scandal that is. you know, i just love gay men. or at least i try to. as i listened to susan kingston of seattle speak about crystal meth, hiv, the hype, the myths, the elephant in the room, and the solution, i wondered about something weird and familiar. i had a vague feeling that i have heard these things before. it really was like some strange deja vu, or else the perspective she was offering felt so right that it just seems i have heard it previously.
she really talks with ease and insight when she speaks about gay men. i could tell that she honestly cares and has quite a bit of working knowledge in this arena. i have no doubt that she has worked with hundreds of gay men around their addictions. and i have no doubt that she really likes us as a culture. the truth is that not that many of us are actually doing this meth thing. at least not to the levels that the gay media and the dea would have us believe. roughly about 10%. it has become an epidemic because it many times involves a dual diagnosis of sorts, crystal meth and hiv. having to deal with both of these issues simultaneously can really be a double whammy. most folks have enough on their hands trying to get through and over an addiction, let alone the complications of the ugly stepsister hiv, too. and when it falls into this dual diagnosis category, many times it also falls under the auspices of public treatment dollars i.e ryan white funding. and that costs all of us.
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