Substance Use Among Gay and Bisexual Men | CDC

Contents:

• LGBT ADDICTN TREATMENT: GAY REHAB CENTER
• GAY REHAB.
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI+)
• LGBTQ AND GAY-FRIENDLY DG REHAB CENTERS

LGBT ADDICTN TREATMENT: GAY REHAB CENTER

People wh substance e disorrs who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer (LGBTQ) face unique challeng and stigma that make securg addictn treatment difficult.

GAY REHAB.

There are several reasons that gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr people may start abg dgs and alhol. Natnal Instute on Dg Abe (NIDA) — Substance e and SUDs LGBTQ* PopulatnsNatnal Instute of Health (NIH) — The Relatnship Between Discrimatn and Substance e Disorrs Among Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults the Uned StatSubstance Abe and Mental Health Servic Admistratn (SAMHSA) — Fd treatment. Not only is their likelihood of addictn greater, gays, lbians, bisexuals, and transgenrs have different needs pared to straight people terms of addictn treatment.

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

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.

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. Until 1973, homosexualy was nsired a mental illns rather than a variatn of human sexualy.

LGBTQ AND GAY-FRIENDLY DG REHAB CENTERS

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.

One of the leadg factors ntributg to creased substance abe the LGBT muny is ternalized homophobia.