The AfterMeth: Gay Men Recovering from Crystal Methamphetamine and Chemsex Addiction

Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/rewired In this episode, Dallas is joined by two guests — Dr. David Fawcett, returning veteran of the podcast and author of Lust, Men, and Meth and Sex Under the Influence , and Andrew McDonnell, a clinical social worker and outpatient addiction therapist in Memphis, Tennessee who brings his own lived...

Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/acceptancestage In this solo episode of The AfterMeth Podcast , Dallas Bragg brings his five-part series comparing the stages of grief to chemsex recovery to a close with its most challenging and nuanced stage: acceptance. Dallas is careful from the outset to reframe what acceptance actually means — n...

Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/unshamed In this deeply personal episode of The AfterMeth Podcast , Dallas sits down with José Barrientos, a 33-year-old Latino gay man from Los Angeles now living in Queens, New York, whose story weaves together early childhood wounds, HIV diagnosis, crystal meth addiction, and a hard-won recovery. J...

Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide:  https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/depression In this solo episode of The AfterMeth Podcast , Dallas Bragg continues the series on the five stages of grief as a framework for chemsex recovery, moving into the fourth stage: depression. Dallas distinguishes this grief-based depression from clinical depression, while encouraging anyone e...

Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/hygiene In this episode of The AfterMeth Podcast , Dallas sits down with Michael Power, an addiction counselor with over 15 years of experience specializing in chemsex, sexual compulsive behaviors, trauma, and LGBTQ mental health. Mike brings both professional expertise and lived experience to the con...

Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide:  https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/bargaining In this solo episode of The AfterMeth Podcast , Dallas Bragg continues his serialized series applying the five stages of grief to chemsex recovery, turning the lens on stage three: bargaining. Dallas frames bargaining as the most dangerous stage — not because it feels the worst, but becaus...

Send us Fan Mail Supplementary Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/integration In this episode of The AfterMeth Podcast , Dallas sits down with Malu, a yoga teacher with twenty years of experience who specializes in working with gay men in recovery. Based in Hawaii, Malu discovered yoga in college and spent years building a practice before recognizing how deeply it...

Send us Fan Mail Supplementary Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/angerstage In this solo episode, Dallas Bragg continues his series on the five stages of grief in chemsex recovery, picking up where last week's episode on denial left off. With honesty and hard-won perspective, Dallas introduces Stage Two: Anger — a stage he describes as hot, loud, and often mi...

Send us Fan Mail Supplementary Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/chemstories In this episode of The AfterMeth Podcast , Dallas Bragg welcomes Patrice St-Amour and Bradley Hampton-Wallis, the research coordinator and Toronto host respectively of Chemstories — a bilingual podcast series produced out of the University of Montreal's School of Public Health that g...

Send us Fan Mail Supplementary Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/denial In this solo episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, Dallas Bragg opens the first installment of a five-part series exploring chemsex recovery through the lens of the five stages of grief. Drawing on his own lived experience, Dallas reframes the recovery journey as a process of allowing the old self...

Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/intimacybegin In this deeply personal episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, Dallas Bragg explores what intimacy truly means—and why it has nothing to do with sex. Joined by his close friend Thr33 (also known as Tucker, a therapeutic yoga instructor based in the Asheville area), Dallas traces the years-lon...

Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide:  https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/grief In this solo episode of The AfterMeth Podcast , Dallas makes the case that recovery from chemsex is unlike recovery from any other addiction because what's being left behind isn't just a substance — it's an identity, a community, a culture, and a hard-won sense of freedom from th...

Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/shadow In this Season 3 episode of The AfterMeth Podcast , Dallas Bragg sits down with Jamie Willis — a Gestalt therapist, clinical specialist in chemsex, addiction, and LGBTQ+ mental health, and the former manager of London's Antidote service who was published in the British Medical Journal in 2...

Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide:  https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/amends In this solo episode of The AfterMeth Podcast , Dallas Bragg explores what he calls "next level amends" — a practice that goes beyond the traditional apology process to address the deeper beliefs driving our conflicts and resentments. Drawing from his own lived experience, Dallas sha...

Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/ACE In this episode of The AfterMeth Podcast , Dallas sits down with Kit Morgan, LCSW — a licensed clinical social worker and creator of The Liberated Porch — for an unflinching conversation about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their direct line to chemsex and methamphetamine dependency.  Ki...

Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/sobers**x In this solo episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, Dallas Bragg confronts one of the most common struggles men face in chemsex recovery: the belief that sober sex is somehow broken, vanilla, or impossible to enjoy. Rather than validating that fear, Dallas reframes it entirely — the issue isn&apo...

Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/psychosis In this episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, Dallas opens with a raw recounting of his own experience with meth-induced psychosis — nine days without sleep, curled in a corner convinced his house was surrounded — before welcoming Dr. Patrick Lockwood, a licensed clinical psychologist based in L...

Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide:  https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/knowingvsdoing In this solo episode of The AfterMeth Podcast , Dallas explores one of the most common — and most overlooked — drivers of relapse: the gap between knowing and doing. Drawing from his work with clients in chemsex recovery, he describes the men who arrive at sessions fully educated on do...

Send us Fan Mail Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/feelingishealing In this powerful episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, Dallas welcomes Amanita Calderón-Cifuentes — a Colombian trans woman, PhD in molecular biomedicine, and HIV research and advocacy officer with Trans Europe Central Asia — as the podcast's first transgender guest. The two met at the Internatio...

Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/counting The AfterMeth Podcast | Season 3 | Shame of Starting at Zero In this video, Dallas Bragg breaks down why the traditional day-counting model in recovery was never designed for gay men navigating chemsex recovery from crystal methamphetamine, and why resetting to zero after a use episode may be d...

Send us Fan Mail Study Guide:   https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/sexoffenders The AfterMeth Podcast tackles one of the most heavily stigmatized intersections in chemsex recovery — the moral injury that can arise when men find themselves exposed to, or participants in, content and behavior during crystal meth use that violates their own values, including child pornography, non-c...

Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/fckit The AfterMeth Podcast | Season 3 | Fuck-its In this video, Dallas Bragg breaks down the "fuck-its" — the moment in chemsex recovery when everything you've built seems to disappear in an instant — and why it's never actually "out of nowhere." If you're a gay man n...

Send us Fan Mail Study Guide:  https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/sobercommunity In this episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, host Dallas Bragg sits down with Jordan Hurt, New York City-based real estate agent and cast member of the Netflix reality series Owning Manhattan, who made headlines by publicly sharing his sobriety journey on the show's second season. Jordan opens up a...

Send us Fan Mail Study Guide:  https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/misery In this powerful episode of The AfterMeth Podcast , Dallas sits down with Darren Murphy, a chemsex specialist practitioner at Forward Leeds Drug and Alcohol Service in the UK, whose journey from crystal meth addiction and drug dealing to frontline recovery work is nothing short of remarkable. Darren opens up...

Send us Fan Mail Study Guide:  https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/contentcreation The AfterMeth Podcast | Season 3 | Guest: Mason Cross In this Season Three episode, Dallas sits down with Mason Cross, a UK-based content creator and former meth user whose recovery journey led him to an unexpected and fulfilling new career in adult content creation — completely sober. Mason shares...