Prometheus

The ACT UP NY Meth Group in collaboration with the The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, is proud To invite you to the premier screening of the documentary Crystal City. It will be followed by a panel and Q&A with director Terrence Crawford, Dr. David Fawcett and others. On Saturday July 13, 2019, from 6 to 10 PM in room 301 at the Center.

Please RSVP at: https://crystalcity.eventbrite.com

The Meth epidemic follows the road laid down by ​the ​HIV​ epidemic working in synergy​, and like HIV, Meth now threatens the most vulnerable among us. We recognize how powerful the Methamphetamine addiction is. For gay men, it is a drug intimately connected with sexual pleasure. It is introduced without warnings, in the bedroom when 2 or more gay men meet, to engage in what will be a nightlong​ sexual​ party and play orgy fueled by Meth, Tina or Crystal.

While when people become addicted is debatable, the desire for Meth can be triggered by anything sexual, anything or anyone connected with the use, any comments that has a sexual connotation, any image that provokes desire, by any desire. All that is happening while there is no efficient pharmacological treatment approved to treat meth addiction or the politically corrected meth use disorder. Yes, like cocaine, there is no treatment for meth. People are left to their own determination to quit it and the support of people like Dr. David Fawcett and places like the Center, which offers the support that people str​​u​gg​l​ing with meth need to quit​ or take control of their lives​ back. Hi

Live webcast of paTy boi, Meth & Health - November 29, 2018 at the Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture. 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, Harlem, NYC.

7:00 to 8:25 PM - Health Care Panel + Q&A

- Moderator - Jagadīśa-devaśrī Dācus, Ph.D., LMSWPM

- Panelists

- Demetre Daskalakis, MD., MPH – Deputy Commissioner Disease Control-NYC DOHMH;

- David Fawcett PhD, LCSW - Author, Lust, Men, and Meth: A Gay Man’s

Guide to Sex and Recovery;

- Ramon Torres – MD, research assistant for the first national multicenter study of methamphetamine treatment;

- Boe Ramirez - GMHC/ACRIA, Coordinator, Training and Curriculum Assistance

The party boi Meth & Health forum mission is to raise community awareness of the methamphetamine epidemic among us, affecting primarily young black and Latino gay men and transgender individuals, to share information and to identify needs.

It is a free event with a special screening of the 2018 NYC Black Pride award winning documentary “parTy boi, Black Diamonds in Ice Castles” by Micheal Rice, followed by 2 panels with Q&A, a network party with light and delicious food, non-alcoholic drinks and raffle prizes.

This is a Harm Reduction oriented event in a safe space, free of shame or stigma.

#NYCTinaForum2018

The meth epidemic has been growing like mushrooms in the shadows of the opioids epidemic, unchecked, unmentioned, undisturbed. On the February 24, 2018 editorial article of The Lancet, one of the most highly regarded health journals in the world, they wrote: "But while the opioid crisis has exploded, the lull in the methamphetamine epidemic has quietly and swiftly reversed course, now accounting for 11% of the total number of overdose deaths." (Opioids and methamphetamine: a tale of two crises).

Methamphetamine or tina, crystal, meth, ice, crystal meth or T is quite different from other drugs. For one it is introduced in the bedroom and so it is intrinsically related to sex. It is introduced in situations where it is difficult to say no and it comes no warnings. Young gay men experiment with it and are blown away by a huge release of neurotransmitters, higher than anything else. Gay men are at special risk for meth because it disinhibits and allows us to engage in sexual practices that otherwise would remain on the level of fantasy, thanks primarily to internalized homophobia, which many are not even aware of. Meth provides a quick fix for that.

There is a lot that most people who use meth don't know about it, but today when you can literally find out who is available next door with different apps and social/sexual networks, meth became as easy to have as sex. If many gay men who use Tina know very little about iT, the community in general knows nothing, it is unaware. Some families who are personally affected, have no idea about how to deal with their loved ones and there is no pharmaceutical treatment in the US. This forum is not intended to solve all those issues, but will bring many of them to light and provide some of the answers. ParTy boi, Meth & Health is about sharing information, so we can make better informed decisions, it is about starting a conversation that we must have.

TM: You said in the promo material for the forum that meth use "grows like mushrooms in the shadow of the opioid epidemic." What do you mean?

MM: Meth use doesn't cause the high number of overdose deaths that opioids do, but according to an article in The Lancet, it actually accounts for 11% of them. I call it the crystal elephant in the bedroom that nobody is talking about. The point is to raise awareness about the issue and not just let it sit there.

TM: You said in the promo material for the forum that meth use "grows like mushrooms in the shadow of the opioid epidemic." What do you mean?

MM: Meth use doesn't cause the high number of overdose deaths that opioids do, but according to an article in The Lancet, it actually accounts for 11% of them. I call it the crystal elephant in the bedroom that nobody is talking about. The point is to raise awareness about the issue and not just let it sit there.

http://www.thebody.com/content/81473/crystal-meth-use-and-treatment-options-for-black-l.html?ap=1100

Evangelical bishop threatens LGBT politician from Rio, to conversion or to death. He poses for the picture with Jean Wyllys and then posted: " I think he thought, that my smile was for having a picture with him.. But he doesn't know that the only thing I wanted was to place my hands on him and prophecise..."or you convert, or you die". Brazil belongs to Jesus!!!"