Dallas Bragg, a chemsex recovery coach, explains how the brain links drugs and sex together during use, making sex itself a trigger for drug cravings. Traditional addiction programs miss this connection, leaving recovery incomplete. He describes it as whack-a-mole: suppress drugs and sexual urges resurface, dragging the drug use back in.
Here is what most recovery programs miss, and it changes everything. Hi, my name is Dallas. I'm a chemsex recovery coach for men who have sex with men. In chemsex, the brain does not experience the drug and the sex as 2 separate events. It encodes them together. It files them in the same drawer, which means sex itself becomes a trigger— not a peripheral one, not one you can avoid by changing your route home Or deleting an app. The most fundamental embodied human experience becomes a cue to use drugs. Experts call the result— that result whack-a-mole. Like, push the drug down, the sexual craving pops back up, dragging the drug right along with it. This is not an ordinary addiction recovery. It requires a fundamentally different understanding of what recovery even means. That's why many recovery systems don't work. They need to be updated to meet the nuanced challenges of chemsex. If you want to join my next group and exist in a space that understands you, comment the word group and we'll send you the application.
