Monty Moncrieff, Chief Executive at London Friend, writes about drug and alcohol services for LGBT people, and the Out of Your Mind report, which examines how these services can be improved.
This summer the Government provided official data on drug use by lesbian, gay & bisexual people for the first time in five years. The Crime Survey for England & Wales provided some stark findings: gay & bisexual men were three times more likely to have used an illicit drug in the past year than heterosexual men. For lesbian & bisexual women the figure was more than four times that of heterosexuals.
Use was higher across all drugs, including heroin and crack, but particular patterns emerged; dig around a bit and you’ll find that almost all of the reported methamphetamine use is by gay or bisexual men, for example.
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