In West Hollywood, a town hall confronts meth-fueled 'chemsex' in the LGBTQ community

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The topic was a growing crisis, especially in the LGBTQ community, that health experts say is not talked about enough: 'chemsex,' or using drugs to enhance sexual activity.

“We’re going to talk about sex,” City Councilman John Duran warned the crowd, feigning surprise.

In West Hollywood, methamphetamine was involved in 47 deaths between 2015 and 2018, and meth-related hospitalizations have steadily ticked upward for the last decade, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.The event follows the overdose deaths of two black gay men in the West Hollywood apartment of Democratic donor Ed Buck, whoof injecting fatal doses of crystal methamphetamine into victims for his own sexual gratification.

Town hall panelist Jason De Puy, a drag queen, said that the problem is rarely discussed openly. There are “influencers on Instagram with a hundred thousand followers, and they’re doing crystal meth on the side, and no one understands or even knows that and everyone’s scared to talk about it,” he said.

The coalition and city employees recently have begun going to major events like LA Pride and West Hollywood’s Halloween Carnaval to hand out free naloxone, a medication that can reverse drug overdoses, as well as condoms and testing strips to determine whether recreational drugs are laced with fentanyl.

Melissa McCracken, a chemsex counselor for Breathe Life Healing Center in West Hollywood, said people “lose self intimacy” when in the throes of drug addiction and that meth use “disables empathy, which is one of the tragic casualties.”

 

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