People who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or qutng (LGBTQ) often face social stigma, discrimatn, and other challeng not enuntered by people who intify as heterosexual. They also face a greater risk of harassment and vlence. As a rult of the and other strsors, sexual mori are at creased risk for var behavral health issu.
Contents:
- LGBT ADDICTN TREATMENT: GAY REHAB CENTER
- WHY THE GAY AND TRANSGENR POPULATN EXPERIENC HIGHER RAT OF SUBSTANCE USE
- SUBSTANCE ABE FACTORS AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUTNG (LGBTQ) INDIVIDUALS
LGBT ADDICTN TREATMENT: GAY REHAB CENTER
People who intify as gay or lbian are more than twice as likely as those who intify as heterosexual to have a “severe” alhol or tobac e disorr. The difficulti members of the LGBTQ+ muny face due to homophobia, discrimatn, and outdated legal, relig, and ethil practic, are unique — members of the heterosexual muny do not experience them. 7 Some mon SUD treatment modali have been shown to be effective for gay or bisexual men, cludg motivatnal terviewg, social support therapy, ntgency management, and gnive-behavral therapy (CBT).
Addictn treatment programs offerg specialized groups for gay and bisexual men showed better out for those clients pared to gay and bisexual men non-specialized programs; but one study, only 7. 11 Current rearch suggts that treatment should addrs unique factors the patients' liv that may clu homophobia/transphobia, fay problems, vlence, and social isolatn.
For example, gay and bisexual men and lbian and bisexual women report greater odds of equent mental distrs and prsn than their heterosexual unterparts. HIV fectn is particularly prevalent among gay and bisexual men (men who have sex wh men, or MSM) and transgenr women who have sex wh men.
WHY THE GAY AND TRANSGENR POPULATN EXPERIENC HIGHER RAT OF SUBSTANCE USE
Use of electronic nite livery systems (ENDS) lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer persons: Implitns for public health nursg. IntroductnDpe growg acceptance of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) muny over recent years, this subset of the populatn remas at a signifintly elevated risk of addictn pared to the general U. While many studi have historilly analyzed sexual mori (SMs) and genr mori (GMs) as sgle homogeno groups, there is a growg regnn of the signifint differenc that exist among dividual LGBQ and T subgroups.
SUBSTANCE ABE FACTORS AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUTNG (LGBTQ) INDIVIDUALS
E., gay men, lbian women, bisexual men, and bisexual women) and nclud that addictn rat varied markedly om one subgroup to another [1]. E., cisgenr gay men, cisgenr bisexual men, cisgenr lbian women, and cisgenr bisexual women) and a sgle GM subgroup nsistg of TW, TM, and GNC dividuals [37].
Another study, which analyzed a sample of 4159 adults between the ag of 18–34, stratified participants to three SM/GM subgroups (lbian/gay, bisexual, and transgenr) and a sgle cisgenr heterosexual reference group [38].