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Los Angeles LGBTQ activist and Democratic donor Ed Buck’s arrest
on Sept. 17 offers a lens into both the widespread use of
crystal meth in a segment of the gay male community, and
arrangements in which older men with more money and status use
meth to ply sexual favors from younger men—sometimes ending very
badly for the younger men.

Buck, 65, was charged on Sept. 17 with one count each of battery
causing serious injury, administering methamphetamine, and
maintaining a drug house after a 37-year-old man overdosed, but
survived, at Buck’s apartment on Sept. 11.

This follows the 2017 meth overdose deaths of two African-
American men—Gemmel Moore, 26, and Timothy Dean, 55—in Buck’s
West Hollywood apartment.

Prosecutors say Buck lured the men to his home with offers of
drugs, money, and shelter. In exchange he manipulated them into
joining in sexual fetishes that include “supplying and
personally administering dangerously large doses of narcotics to
his victims,” they wrote in court papers.

“I feel vindicated for all the people who said [Buck’s arrest]
was never going to happen,” said Jasmyne Cannick, an LGBTQ
advocate and spokeswoman for Moore’s mother. “I feel really good
for all the young men he took advantage of because they didn’t
feel like anyone took them seriously, like their lives weren’t
important enough for anyone to really care about.”

Ft. Lauderdale-based substance abuse expert and certified sex
therapist David Fawcett, Ph.D., says, “Meth use among gay men in
New York City has risen 400 percent.” Author of “Lust, Men and
Meth: A Gay Man’s Guide to Sex and Recovery,” Fawcett says
estimates run as high as 1 in 4 gay men in major urban areas in
the U.S. who are semi-regularly using meth. “It’s at epidemic
levels in the gay community,” he says.

As for the inter-generational drugs-for-sex exchange, Fawcett
says in the just-out documentary “Crystal City” “Meth is a great
equalizer.” He explains, “The older guys with money provide the
meth and the younger guys provide sex.”

Why does this wildly addictive, potentially deadly drug—its
lethal effects can include stroke, heart attack, liver and
kidney failure, and even rotted teeth—hold such strong appeal
for a large minority of gay men in particular?

Meth’s best known effects are pleasure and dissociation, as it
works on the brain’s limbic system, the reward circuitry.
Combined with sex, as it frequently is by its gay male users,
meth explodes physical and emotional pleasure through the
roof—and kicks good judgment to the curb.

Meth is well known to make men hypersexual even as it shatters
any personal standards they may have had for protecting
themselves and their partners against HIV. But if pleasure alone
were meth’s main appeal, then surely the three-quarters of gay
men who do not use the drug would also be drawn to it—along with
the rest of the human race.

A bigger attraction is the chance to escape the isolation and
loneliness that are rampant in the gay community. “Meth is a
really effective way to numb what in the literature is called
‘minority stress,” says Fawcett. “People who have experienced a
lot of stigma based on who they are, experience a lot of mental
health and addiction issues.”

Those who combine meth and sex face the highest rate of relapse,
“typically about 90 percent,” says Fawcett.

Fawcett told me in an interview about Crystal City that both
straight and gay men connect meth use to porn and sex addiction
because both operate similarly in the brain. “We approach it as
an intimacy disorder, an intensity disorder, an increasing need
for intensity,” he said, describing the practice called Seeking
Integrity through which he and fellow therapist Rob Weiss work
with gay men.

Twelve-step abstinence-based recovery programs have proved to be
the most successful approach to addressing meth addiction. A key
to their success is the supportive community they provide. “Any
recovery solution must have a communal aspect,” said Fawcett.

The LGBTQ community certainly has the creativity, connections to
government funders, and other resources to be able to direct
attention to the growing meth epidemic among urban gay men.

We need one that addresses depression and HIV stigma, two major
drivers of risky behavior—and huge reasons so many gay men feel
the need for analgesia to ease their emotional pain.

Meth and other drug abuse, and HIV too, should rightly be looked
at as symptoms of that pain. First address what’s hurting.
That’s how healing becomes possible and the need for pain-relief
will decrease.

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2019/09/25/how-many-more-ed- bucks-are-out-there/

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