There has not been alot of research on lesbians and alcoholism or drug addiction, os it is difficult to describe the issues they face. However, current studies suggest that on the average lesbians are more likely to use alcohol than other women, use other drugs in conjunction with alcohol at a higher rate, report higher [...]

Methamphetamine Treatment as HIV Prevention
For about a decade in California, the drug most tightly linked with HIV infection in Gay Bisexual Men has been crystal methamphetamine. The drug conveys a sense of heightened sexuality in the short term and is associated with risky sexual behaviors and extremely high rates of HIV infection in those seeking [...]

Treatment Curbs Methamphetamine Abuse Among Gay and Bisexual Men Research Findings
Vol. 20, No. 4 (March 2006)
By Lori Whitten, NIDA NOTES Staff Writer
Behavioral therapy can help gay and bisexual men (GBM) reduce methamphetamine abuse and risky sexual behaviors and sustain these gains for 1 year, NIDA-funded researchers report. By the end of [...]

Pursuing New Medications
In recent years, people from all walks of life have sought treatment for addiction to powerful narcotic pain-relieving medications, such as OxyContin and Vicodin, that they have abused outside of a medical regimen. These medications share many properties with heroin, which currently ensnares more than a million people nationwide in the web of [...]