In his memoir, ‘Tweakerworld,’ Jason Yamas describes navigating the LGBTQ “party and play” subculture along with his own struggle with meth addiction. “I was the largest crystal meth supplier within San Francisco’s queer community,” Yamas told NBCNews.
by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, from 2015 to 2017, the percentage of gay men surveyed who reported using meth in the previous year was twice as high as straight men.,” which is being released Tuesday, Yamas describes the experience of living in the drug-fueled “party and play” subculture in unflinching, gory detail from the unique perspective of both a one-time addict and drug dealer.
“I don’t believe that my comfortable middle-class upbringing with a support system and a loving family, per se, would necessarily indicate addiction was around the corner,” he said. “Addiction does not discriminate.”Yamas said the typical depiction of a meth user is out of step with the realities of the populations it affects. To many, he said, meth use is associated with mugshot images of gaunt faces with wounds and scabs that have been publicized in anti-drug campaigns.
Later, he was introduced to GHB, which is commonly known as the “date rape drug” but is also used in “party and play” culture because of the heightened sense of euphoria it can provide in smaller doses. The drug has had ain the LGBTQ community in recent years, according to researchers, even though it can have deadly consequences.
In “Tweakerworld,” Yamas describes how he learned to purchase drugs on the dark web and how that fueled his enterprise before he connected with a Mexican drug cartel. Mexican drug cartels, according to apublished by the Drug Enforcement Agency in 2020, are the largest providers of meth in the U.S.
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