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Sexualised drug use and chemsex in Italy: A questionnaire study based on a cohort of clients attending a STI outpatient service in Milan

International Journal of STD & AIDS, 2023
Background Chemsex is a heterogeneous phenomenon with differences in distribution, setting, motivations and type of substances consumed between countries. The lack of data at national level of the Italian situation creates a perception of reduced need for intervention.
Giacalone S., Barberi F., Ramoni S., Casazza G., Cusini M., Marzano A. V.   +5 more
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'I'm Doing It Willingly': Understanding Moral Agency, Empathy, and Stigma in the Context of Sexualised Drug Use.

Culture, Health and Sexuality
Research on sexualised drug use often emphasises adverse health outcomes and risk management with limited exploration of the social and ethical dimensions of moral agency and harm reduction practices. This study examined the interplay between moral agency, empathy, and stigma.
Mark Fleming
exaly   +3 more sources

Aspects Associated With Sexualised Drug Use Among Gay Men and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men: A Cross-Sectional Study From the Latin America MSM Internet Survey 2018 – Chile

Sexual Health, 2020
Background Sexualised drug use has attracted interest due to the role it could play in increasing exposure to the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmissible infections. It also carries risks inherent to substance use and may influence psychosocial factors.
Cristian Lisboa, Valeria Stuardo A
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Weak Chemsex as Cultural Scripts: Understanding How Chinese Gay Men Narrate Sexualised Drug Use

Sexualities
In recent years, chemsex has attracted growing scholarly attention for its intersections with health, pleasure, and sexuality. Scholarship largely produced in the Global North, has focused on health risks, recreational use, and the emergent meanings of chemsex subcultures.
Apei Song
exaly   +2 more sources

Men who have sex with men diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection are significantly more likely to engage in sexualised drug use

International Journal of STD & AIDS, 2016
The sexualised use of recreational drugs (Mephedrone, GBL/GHB, Crystal Meth) generally known as ‘chemsex’ in men who have sex with men (MSM) is thought to be associated with sexually transmitted infection (STI) acquisition; however there is little data showing a direct relationship.
Z, Ottaway, Fionnuala, Finnerty, Aliza, Amlani, Nicolas, Pinto-Sander, Joshua, Szanyi, Daniel, Richardson   +5 more
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Substance Use and Sex Index (SUSI): First stage development of an assessment tool to measure behaviour change in sexualised drug use for substance use treatment studies

International Journal of Drug Policy, 2018
Existing tools for measuring blood-borne virus (BBV) and sexually transmitted infection (STI) transmission risk behaviours in substance use interventions have limited capacity to assess risk behaviours across varied social, cultural and epidemiological contexts; have not evolved alongside HIV treatment and prevention innovations; or accounted for ...
Nadine Ezard, Beatrice Webb, Brendan Clifford, Michael E. Cecilio, Amanda Jellie, Toby Lea, Craig Rodgers, Simon Ruth, Raimondo Bruno   +8 more
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Generative Tension and Social Risk Management Surrounding Sexualised Drug Use Practice Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in Highly Stigmatised Environments: A Qualitative Study From Jakarta, Indonesia

International Journal of Drug Policy
Global policies emphasise the need for tailored interventions to reduce the harms of sexualised drug use (SDU) among men who have sex with men (MSM), including taking account of local risk environments and the influence of social norms, drug and sexual minority stigma, and cultural and political conditions.
By Dr Adam Huw Bourne, Laura Nevendorff, Alisa Pedrana   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Sexualised drug use among cisgender heterosexual and LGBTQ+ people who regularly use illicit stimulants in Australia

The Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS) is a national drug monitoring system intended to identify emerging trends of local and national concern in illicit drug markets and form part of Drug Trends. This bulletin aims to examine engagement in, and factors associated with, sexualised drug use among a sample of cisgender heterosexual and ...
Lilly, Kieren, Barber, Tayla, Bruno, Raimondo, Salom, Caroline   +3 more
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Increasing rates of reported chemsex/sexualised recreational drug use in men who have sex with men attending for postexposure prophylaxis for sexual exposure

Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2017
Sexualised recreational drug use or chemsex is associated with an increase in sexual risk-taking behaviours in men who have sex with men (MSM).1 Chemsex is associated with group sex and multiple sexual partners, serodiscordant condomless sex and STI transmission.1–3 Chemsex is, therefore, an important public health issue among MSM and may result in an ...
Zoe, Ottaway, Fionnuala, Finnerty, Tracey, Buckingham, Daniel, Richardson   +3 more
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Chemsex case study: is it time to recommend routine screening of sexualised drug use in men who have sex with men?

Sexual Health, 2018
This case discusses a gay male participating in sexualised drug use. It raises several important issues and strengthens the case for routine screening for sexualised drug use in men who have sex with men so that healthcare professionals can provide better-informed and higher-quality health care to this population.
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