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Sexualized drug use among men who have sex with men in Madrid and Barcelona: The gateway to new drug use? [PDF]

Front Public Health, 2022
This original study compares the prevalences of drug use for any purpose and for sexualized drug use (SDU) among MSM. It also describes relevant characteristics of first SDU, analyzes to what extent SDU has been the first experience (the gateway) with ...
Guerras JM, Hoyos J, Donat M, de la Fuente L, Palma Díaz D, Ayerdi O, García-Pérez JN, García de Olalla P, Belza MJ.   +8 more
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Complications Related to Sexualized Drug Use: What Can We Learn From Literature? [PDF]

Front Neurosci, 2020
Chemsex is described as the use of specific psychoactive substances (PS) during sexual activity to sustain, enhance, disinhibit or facilitate the sexual experience. It preferentially concerns men who have sex with men (MSM).
Donnadieu-Rigole H, Peyrière H, Benyamina A, Karila L.   +3 more
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An uncharted territory of sexualized drug use: exploring the dynamics of chemsex among young and adolescent MSM including self-identified gay men in urban Dhaka, Bangladesh. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Global and local literature depicted the pervasiveness of chemsex among men who have sex with men (MSM), yet there is limited evidence on adolescents and youth.
Irfan SD, Sarwar G, Emran J, Khan SI.
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Prevalence of sexualized drug use and risk of HIV among sexually active MSM in East and South Asian countries: systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]

J Int AIDS Soc, 2023
Introduction Sexualized drug use (SDU), the use of psychoactive drugs in the context of sexual intercourse, has been identified as a risk factor for HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Asia. Given the distinct social and cultural context of same‐
Nevendorff L, Schroeder SE, Pedrana A, Bourne A, Stoové M.   +4 more
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Sexualized drug use factors among rural sexual minority men. [PDF]

J Rural Health
AbstractPurposeAlthough rural sexual minority men (SMM) use substances immediately before/during sex (i.e., sexualized drug use), the factors contributing to this behavior are unknown. We examined the factors associated with past year sexualized drug use among rural SMM.MethodsRural SMM in the Southern region of the United States (N = 345) completed an
Owens C, Montemayor BN.
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Inside out: TNFa-RII and sexualized drug use in acute HIV predicts persistent depressive symptoms despite antiretroviral therapy. [PDF]

Brain Behav Immun Health
Objective: Although pathophysiologic alterations during acute HIV infection (AHI) may have long-term neuropsychiatric consequences, scant research has examined biobehavioral predictors of distinct depressive symptom trajectories from AHI through ...
Chavez JV, Bolzenius J, Chan P, Cho K, Mannarino J, Sacdalan C, Farhadian S, Trautmann L, Ndhlovu LC, Tipsuk S, Crowell TA, Krebs SJ, Slike B, Suttichom D, Colby DJ, Phanuphak N, Kroon E, Vasan S, Sriplienchan S, Spudich S, Paul R, Carrico AW.   +21 more
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Sexualized drug use ("chemsex") and sexually transmitted infections. [PDF]

Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS, 2021
Juyal D, Dhawan B, Thawani V, Thaledi S.
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Uptake and willingness to use PrEP among Chinese gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men with experience of sexualized drug use in the past year. [PDF]

BMC Infect Dis, 2020
Background Sexualized drug use (SDU) refers to use of any psychoactive substance before/during sexual intercourse. Chemsex is a subset of SDU, which is defined as the use of some specific psychoactive substances (methamphetamine, mephedrone, γ ...
Wang Z, Mo PKH, Ip M, Fang Y, Lau JTF.
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Integrative treatment approach to problematic sexualized drug use (Chemsex) of 3-methylmethcathinone: a case report. [PDF]

J Med Case Rep
Introduction The practice of chemsex refers to the use of drugs during sexual activities. Many articles describe chemsex practices and address the risks of sexually transmitted infections; however, few address the topic of addictive patterns of chemsex ...
Khatcherian E, Arango-Arroyave S, Zullino D, Achab S.   +3 more
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Drugs Used in "Chemsex"/Sexualized Drug Behaviour-Overview of the Related Clinical Psychopharmacological Issues. [PDF]

Brain Sci
Background: “Chemsex” involves the intake of a range of drugs (e.g., synthetic cathinones, gamma-hydroxybutyric acid/gamma-butyrolactone (GHB/GBL), ketamine, methamphetamine, “poppers”, type V phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors, MDMA/ecstasy, cocaine ...
Schifano F, Bonaccorso S, Arillotta D, Guirguis A, Corkery JM, Floresta G, Papanti Pelletier GD, Scherbaum N, Schifano N.   +8 more
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