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CONTROLLING CHEMSEX
Address
Gema House
39 Lilestone Street
LONDON
NW88SS
Website
Beneficiaries
- LGBTQIA people
- People recovering from substance misuse
Activities
- Campaigning
- Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Education/Training (adults)
- Health information and signposting
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Substance misuse
Description
CONTROLLING CHEMSEX is a charity created and run by professionals with long experience providing Chemsex support, many of whom have struggled with Chemsex in the past themselves.
Chemsex is a term that describes the sexual activity that happens while under the influence of drugs, taken before or during this activity, with the purpose of sustaining, enhancing, disinhibiting or facilitating the experience,, It's predominantly affecting the LGBTQ+ Community, and it has been defined as the biggest tragedy affecting this community since the years of the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s and 1990s.