Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) | SAMHSA

Contents:

• DWIGHT HOWARD SUED BY MAN CLAIMG NBA STAR FORCED HIM TO HAVE GAY THREOME
• LGBT ADDICTN TREATMENT: GAY REHAB CENTER
• 8 BT LGBTQ AND GAY-FRIENDLY REHAB CENTERS
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI+)

DWIGHT HOWARD SUED BY MAN CLAIMG NBA STAR FORCED HIM TO HAVE GAY THREOME

In one msage, Howard explas that he’s not gay, he’s “j alil nasty sometim. Harper and Howard, who has never intified as gay or bisexual, met on social media and arranged to have sex. Now I want you to know I’m not gay or anythg.

LGBT ADDICTN TREATMENT: GAY REHAB CENTER

Not only is their likelihood of addictn greater, gays, lbians, bisexuals, and transgenrs have different needs pared to straight people terms of addictn treatment.

Read on to fd out how a gay rehab center n help. Acrdg to rearch by the Natnal Epimlogil Survey on Alhol and Related Condns-III done on 36, 309 adults sufferg om substance abe, about 6% of them intified as beg homosexual.

8 BT LGBTQ AND GAY-FRIENDLY REHAB CENTERS

The same rearch also showed that lbians and gays were twice as likely to have a severe alhol or tobac e disorr pared to heterosexuals.

Acrdg to the 2015 Natnal Survey on Dg Use and Health, 39% of lbians, gays, and bisexuals ed illic dgs pared to 17% of heterosexual adults.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI+)

Until 1973, homosexualy was nsired a mental illns rather than a variatn of human sexualy. Not surprisgly, gays, lbians, bisexuals, transgenrs, and queers equently turn to tobac, alhol, and dgs as a pg mechanism. Some of the factors that ntribute to alholism or dg pennce gays and lbians are discsed below.

Internalized Homophobia. One of the leadg factors ntributg to creased substance abe the LGBT muny is ternalized homophobia. This is the type of homophobia where a person accepts the social stigma and discrimatn they face as part of their inty.