20% – 30% of ALL gay people abuse substances. Gays and transgenders are 200 times more likely to smoke cigarettes than heterosexuals. 25% of all gays and transgenders are alcoholics, compared to 5% – 10% of the rest of society. It gets worse. Gay men are 3.5 times more likely to smoke pot, 12.2 times more likely to abuse amphetamines, an d 9.5 times more likely to use heroine.

Why are the numbers so high?


http://www.cdc.gov/msmhealth/substance-abuse.htm
http://www.gayguys.com/2014/04/gays-...buse-problems/
http://www.americanprogress.org/issu...substance-use/
http://pride-institute.com/programs/...bt-drug-abuse/
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/0...substance-use/

That's why it's much more fun.

Gays just want to have fun

Judging by the places I go to and the people I hang with, that's true.

And how many % of heterosexual people abuse substances? Also what sample did they use, just North American gays? Often these studies will generalize to all gay people despite their sample not being representative of different nationalities, ethnicities, age groups, etc. Because "gayguys.com" citing a statistic with no references whatsoever does not seem very trustworthy.

I'm not surprised.

Wtf??? Who the **** did they survey. I don't drink or smoke at all.

A lot of studies have confirmed this.

Then you're just not part of the 20-30%.

I would like to know how they conducted that?

Homosexuals are an oppressed minority. What do you expect from people who are generally shunned, judged, and not accepted for their entire lives? I'm sure this study is about actual adults too. Could you imagine how much worse it must've been to be gay in the 80's/90's, when there was 10x the amount of narrow-minded people???

im none of those and never will be

Yeah wow people who are **** on in society have substance abuse problems, who could've possibly anticipated this

Then that makes you part of the 70% that doesn't...

This post is the most horrible and frenzied attempt at analytic writing I have ever read... and that's saying something.
There are so many other questions to ask and correlations to draw from this data (which isn't even cited to ANY source) than "being gay is hard and we need to stop doing drugs WHERE IS THE HELP?!?!"

Like...
What kind of "First-Time-Writing-A-High-School-Assignment" intro?!

Anyway, these numbers are higher than I expected, but I've at least anecdotally seen similar patterns re: drug abuse.

Tsk tsk.