Gay & Sober MISSION STATEMENT

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• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• LGBT ADDICTN TREATMENT: GAY REHAB CENTER

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

Our hog clus all people of all genrs and sexual orientatn cludg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, asexual, non-bary and all other humans. 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. 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. Not surprisgly, gays, lbians, bisexuals, transgenrs, and queers equently turn to tobac, alhol, and dgs as a pg mechanism.

LGBT ADDICTN TREATMENT: GAY REHAB CENTER

Some of the factors that ntribute to alholism or dg pennce gays and lbians are discsed below.