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Lost and Found: Helping Patients Develop Emotional Resilience

With some luck, time and encouragement from providers, most patients can foster a degree of emotional resilience that will significantly contribute to their health and wellness.

Published
15 May 2013
From
TheBody.com
Mental and emotional health
Peter Staley: Is This My Beautiful Life?

Many of us AIDS-generation survivors in some way have unprocessed grief, or guilt, or an overwhelming sense of abandonment from a gay community that turned its back on us and increasingly stigmatizes us, all in an attempt to pretend that AIDS isn't its problem anymore.

Published
15 May 2013
From
Huffington Post
Epidemiology and behaviour
More drugs, more alcohol often means more risky sex for HIV-negative gay men

There is a highly significant relationship between frequency and intensity of drug and alcohol use and risky sex among American HIV-negative gay men, a study published in

Published
14 May 2013
By
Michael Carter
Ageing and HIV
Michelangelo Signorile: The First AIDS Generation: Grappling With Why We're Alive and What It Means

I was escaping the epidemic by immersing myself in the politics and urgency of it, which seems paradoxical but really does make a lot of sense .I gave myself a special dispensation on grief and heartbreak. There was no time for grief, especially when anger and indignation was so much more empowering. Of course, what I'm painfully learning 25 years later is that you can put grief off, but you can't ever escape it.

Published
10 May 2013
From
Huffington Post
Bad science and bogus treatments
Nyaope: dangerous drug, dangerous misconceptions

Despite evidence that disproves the popular belief that antiretroviral (ARVs) drugs are an ingredient in nayope or “whoonga”, media coverage on the street drug continues to perpetuate this misconception.

Published
07 May 2013
From
JournAIDS
Recreational drug use
Sleazy Michael Presents Sauna and Drug Club Casualties - community panel on recent gay club deaths in London

Community panel on recent gay club deaths in London at Royal Vauxhall Tavern at 7pm on Thursday 9 May

Published
05 May 2013
From
Time Out
Injecting drug use
The World's Best Drug Laws

What are the best and worst countries to live in if you're a drug user? What is a really good set of drug laws, anyway? One man's view: as provocative and contentious as you'd expect.

Published
03 May 2013
From
The Fix
Injecting drug use
Elevated prevalence of HIV and viral hepatitis in men injecting anabolic steroids

Addressing a topic that has received remarkably little research attention over the years, Dr Vivian Hope of Public Health England told the British HIV Association conference yesterday

Published
18 April 2013
By
Roger Pebody
Activism
London's gay scene: Is a community in crisis beginning to self care?

An observation I hear often now, is that the gay community is divided into two camps; those who work in healthcare/campaigning/politics, and those who go clubbing and enjoy chem-sex.

Published
16 April 2013
From
Pink News
Recreational drug use
Meth Makes an Ominous Comeback Among Gay Men

In the early part of the millennium, meth was pervasive both in rural America and in urban gay communities. Its use peaked around 2005 when, following a federal law limiting access to its primary precursor, pseudoephedrine, usage seemed to drop. Now, because of the cycles of recreational drugs, a new generation, short memories, and the seductive power of this dopamine-releasing supermolecule, the drug appears to be making a comeback, at least in the gay community.

Published
03 April 2013
From
TheBody.com
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