Dallas Bragg talks to men struggling with methamphetamine addiction about getting real help: educate your support network about the chemsex scene, the apps involved, and your trigger windows, usually 2 to 4 AM. Give them a clear job description so they can actually recognize when you're in danger and step in.
Hey, if you're a man who has sex with men and you have a Tina addiction that you're trying to get out of, here is an important step, and that is educating your support network, whether it be a partner, siblings, parents, friends. They need to know exactly the nuance around this particular addiction. The nuances around Tina in the gay community is nothing they're going to see on TV. They're not going to see in the movies. They're not going to hear on the news. They're not even going to hear it from their gay friends. If you really want support, you're going to have to give them a job description, and you're going to have to educate them on what it's like being in this secret world we call the party world or the H&H world, the chill-outs, the chemsex world. The way it's tied to your sexual desire, the way it has its own app called Grindr. If they don't hear back from you in a certain amount of hours, that's an alarm. The trigger time, a lot of times, is between 2:00 and 4:00 AM. The more you educate your support network, the safer you're going to be.
