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We're seeing rapid increases in meth use among black MSM alongside declines in meth use among white MSM."
But that began changing five to seven years ago.
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The only drugs they used more than gay white men were marijuana and crack cocaine. "Historically," he says, "gay black men were far less likely than gay white men to use drugs associated with condomless sex, such as poppers, crystal, ketamine, GHB or X. That's echoed by Gregorio Millett, M.P.H., a gay black man who is vice president and public policy director at amfAR. Conversations I've had make me think it's really quite serious in Atlanta, D.C., New York and other places." (The link between meth use and HIV infection has been well-documented.) "In the last five or six years, I know far more gay black men dealing with meth addiction than I did a decade ago. "Absolutely, there's been an increase in use among gay black men," says Kenyon Farrow, a gay black man who is the health policy director at Treatment Action Group, an HIV/AIDS think tank. Rice is not the only one to pick up on this trend. "I had to make a stand in my community and raise my voice about this," he says. (Rice says that he had two conversations apiece with subjects before shooting to make sure they understood what they were getting into, then had them sign releases.) Currently, Rice says he is refining the doc and talking to various well-known online viewing platforms about showing it. That led to parTy boi, a raw and heartbreaking documentary Rice has made in which New York City gay black men talk (sometimes incoherently) about both using and dealing meth, sometimes while doing those things.