According to the Center for American Progress, up to 30% of gay and transgendered people abuse drugs, compared to about 9% of straight people. Gay men, the study says, are 9.5 times more likely to use heroin.:
Tobacco
- Gay and transgender people smoke tobacco up to 200% more than their heterosexual and non-transgender peers.
Alcohol
- 25% of gay and transgender people abuse alcohol, compared to 5 to 10% of the general population.
Drugs
- Men who have sex with men are 3.5 times more likely to use marijuana than men who do not have sex with men.
- These men also are 12.2 times more likely to use amphetamines than men who do not have sex with men.
- They are also 9.5 times more likely to use heroin than men who do not have sex with men.
According to the spin controllers in the gay-manipulated media, and the homosexual lobbyists, this is all due to continuing discrimination, stress from social prejudice, and adverse working conditions. While there still is a great deal of hatred targeted towards homosexuals, I have usually found that problems most often have the simplest answers. Perhaps, homosexuals are just unhappy. Behind all of the boast, parades, and porn: lies a group of very wounded people on a restless search for healing. In the bars, bathhouses, and chic resorts – they find nothing, but an illusion of sexual freedom and seemingly secure, yet false promise of domesticity. Despite all of these diversions, the pains of the past persist; and they eventually call-out to be dulled. The only relief can be found in a courageous, and often extremely painful, exploration of the traumas of childhood; then, can true recovery take place.