Mental health, drug use and sexual risk behavior among gay and bisexual men

In recent years, gay and bisexual men (GBM) have been represented as engaging in unrestrained risk-taking through a ‘dangerous’ mix of drugs and sex (or ‘chemsex’) exacerbated by psychological vulnerabilities (Stuart, 2016). Concerns around chemsex have usually been based on an assumed causative link between drug use and poor mental health and an assumption that drug taking leads to sexual risk taking.

Source: International Journal of Drug Policy - February 8, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Garrett Prestage, Mohamed Hammoud, Fengyi Jin, Louisa Degenhardt, Adam Bourne, Lisa Maher Source Type: research