The AfterMeth: Gay Men Recovering from Crystal Methamphetamine and Chemsex Addiction
The AfterMeth is a podcast dedicated to helping gay men recover from crystal methamphetamine and chemsex addiction. Hosted by Dallas Bragg, it aims to raise awareness about the effects of these substances on the gay male community. The show shares stories of hope and provides tools for those struggling with addiction and their loved ones. Episodes are released every other week.
Episodes
EP 3:55 Chemsex Recovery: The SMART Way
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/smartFor a year, Dallas Bragg has wanted to bring an alternative to the 12 steps onto The AfterMeth Podcast, and this episode delivers it with two guests whose lived experience runs straight through chemsex. Gus Curran is SMART Recovery’s senior director of training and program development, a facilitat
EP 3:54 Chemsex Recovery: The “Good News” Trigger
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/goodnewsIn this solo episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, Dallas Bragg names a trigger that almost nobody in recovery talks about: good news. He opens with his own pattern from his drug court years, when he found himself relapsing after nearly every NA key tag and drove straight from the courthouse to pic
EP 3:53 LGBT Foundation: Voices of Chemsex
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/foundationThis episode of The AfterMeth Podcast is unlike any other. Instead of a clinician or author, Dallas Bragg hosts a panel of three people connected to the LGBT Foundation in the UK, each with a direct, lived relationship to chemsex, brought together with help from Reese, the Foundation's s
EP 3:52 Chemsex Recovery: You Decide Your Day One
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/decideIn this solo episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, Dallas Bragg challenges one of recovery culture's most rigid ideas: the day one. He shares that the date he publicly uses isn't when his recovery began. It began on a hotel bed, when sunlight broke through the curtain and a voice cut throug
EP 3:51 The Family Dynamics of Chemsex Users
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/dynamicsDallas Bragg has been asked one question more than almost any other: what do I do when someone I love is using? In this episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, he finally sits down with someone equipped to answer it. Charlie Bray is a counselor, former treatment center clinician, and family and loved
EP 3:50 Sexual Healing post-Chemsex: The Fuck Buddy
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/fbuddyIn this solo episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, Dallas Bragg opens with a story from his earliest days of recovery, when finally settling into a home with his kids set off cravings and a deep fear of sex. Drug tested several times a week and told in 12-step rooms to wait a year, he made his own pl
EP 3:49 The Real Work of Chemsex Recovery with Danni
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/realworkHost Dallas Bragg sits down with Danni Pomplun, a men's coach and men's work facilitator based in San Francisco, whose message — "I quit the drugs, but the addiction stayed" — cuts to the heart of what happens after the substance is gone. Danni traces his own path from leavi
EP 3:48 How to Build Your Chemsex Recovery Team
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/buildIn this solo episode, Dallas Bragg tackles a question most men in chemsex recovery answer too quickly: "Who's on my team?" The opposite of addiction may be connection, but shame around meth, GHB, or mephedrone keeps men from asking for help — and even when they do, what they usually
EP 3:47 Self-Empowered Chemsex Recovery with Damon
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/selfempoweredHost Dallas Bragg sits down with Damon Hunter — former public health professor, social worker, and harm reduction content creator — for a candid conversation about why the U.S. still flinches at harm reduction and what it actually looks like in practice. Damon traces the country's fea
EP 3:46 Chemsex Recovery: You Already Want it Enough
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/enoughIn this solo episode, Dallas Bragg retires a question he spent years asking his clients: "How bad do you want it?" He opens with the story of one of his first clients — a "flight risk" who, with his phone locked down, would drive to Walmart late at night to buy a track phone a
EP 3:45 How To Stop Repeating Patterns in Chemsex Recovery with Juan
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/repeatingHost Dallas Bragg welcomes Juan Galan — spiritual teacher, identity alchemist, and life coach for gay men — to tackle one of the most common questions in chemsex recovery: "Why do I keep doing this?" Juan explains that repeated patterns aren't character flaws but nervous-system
EP 3:44 Combating Euphoric Recall: The Post-Use Video
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/postIn this short solo episode, Dr. Dallas Bragg shares one of the most effective tools in his coaching program: the post-relapse video. He traces its origin to his own bottom — returning home after an arrest to find his house ransacked by the men he'd been using with, no car, no job, eviction loo
EP 3:43 Three Types of Chemsex User Profiles with Dr. Lockwood
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/profilesIn this returning-guest episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, Dallas Bragg welcomes back Dr. Patrick Lockwood for a wide-ranging conversation that opens with an unscripted reflection on connection itself. The two men explore how easy it is—especially for busy professionals and entrepreneurs—to let
EP 3:42 The Three Pillars of Chemsex Recovery
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/pillarsIn this solo episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, Dallas Bragg lays out the three pillars he considers essential to chemsex recovery: consistency, proactivity, and certainty — three overlapping circles whose intersection is a chemsex-free life. He opens by naming the strange, uncomfortable stretch
EP 3:41 Chemsex Recovery: The Breakthrough Moment with Domtopics
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/breakthroughEpisode 3-41, "Breakthrough Moment," of The AfterMeth Podcast welcomes London-based DJ and harm reduction advocate Dom (known online as Dom Topics), whom Dallas first met through the interconnected web of chemsex advocacy on Instagram before sharing coffee together in London. Dom
EP 3:40 Top Chemsex Trigger: Re-Entry
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/reentryIn this solo episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, Dallas Bragg tackles one of the most overlooked triggers in chemsex recovery: re-entry, the fraught return home from a trip, whether vacation, business travel, or even treatment. Drawing on his own lived experience and his work with clients, Dallas
EP 3:39 Late-Bloomers and Chemsex with Darrell
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/lateIn this episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, Dallas Bragg sits down with Darrell Martin, an LCSW, transformational psychotherapist, and musician based in New York City, for a conversation about what happens when gay men come out later in life and find themselves swept into chemsex. Dallas shares his o
EP 3:38 Hidden Chemsex Trigger: Unspoken Conversations
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/unspokenIn this solo episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, Dallas Bragg challenges one of the most common assumptions in chemsex recovery: that horniness, sex, and hookup apps are the true triggers behind relapse. Drawing from his daily work with men around the world, he argues that these are effects rathe
EP 3:37 Harm Reduction for Chemsex Recovery with Taylor
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/reductionIn this episode, Dallas sits down with harm reduction consultant and healthcare compliance officer Taylor Edelmann to explore one of the most contested yet evidence-supported approaches to chemsex recovery. Dallas frames harm reduction not as the opposite of abstinence but as a full spectrum o
EP 3:36 Chemsex Recovery: Reasons vs. Excuses
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/reasonsIn this solo episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, Dallas Bragg starts with two voice notes that landed back to back during one of his daily walks. Two clients, the same return to use, the same broken commitment, even the same specific oversight — an old user buddy still on Snapchat. But the men des
EP 3:35 Dallas Interviews His Kids AfterMeth
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/kidsIn this deeply personal milestone episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, Dallas Bragg marks eight years in meth recovery and his fiftieth birthday by sitting down with the two people at the center of his story: his adult children, Liliana and Jonah. There is no script and no list of talking points—just
EP 3:34 YOU aren’t a chemsex addict
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/chemsexaddictIn this solo episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, Dallas Bragg opens with a scene from his active use — sitting on a patio, scrolling Grindr, negotiating with himself about whether to lose a weekend to partying — and the question that surfaced in the middle of it: if part of him wanted to use
EP 3:33 Open Relationships 101 with Aidan
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/relationshipsIn this episode, Dallas Bragg welcomes Aidan Wharton — a New York-based sex and relationships writer, educator, and columnist specializing in open relationships — for a candid conversation exploring non-monogamy through the lens of gay men's recovery from chemsex. Dallas is upfront ab
EP 3:32 3 Ways to Actually Love Yourself in Chemsex Recovery
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/loveIn this solo episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, Dallas Bragg opens with two mirrors from his own early recovery: the morning-after wreckage of a bender, where he catalogued everything wrong with him, and the day-90 reflection glowing with gratitude and quiet superiority over men still using. His rev
EP 3:31 Chemsex Harm Reduction and Homelessness with Thiccums
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/homelessIn this special episode — the first ever recorded in person for The AfterMeth Podcast — Dallas Bragg travels to Los Angeles for a chemsex conference and sits down with Thiccums, the voice behind the Instagram page "How to Be Homeless in LA." What unfolds is a candid, deeply human conv
EP 3:30 Chemsex Recovery: The Glitching Phase
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/glitchingIn this solo episode, Dallas Bragg explores what he calls "glitching" — the disorienting middle phase of chemsex recovery when old patterns have been stripped away but a new identity hasn't yet formed. He opens with a raw story from his own early recovery: riding the last light
EP 3:29 Regulating the Nervous System with Doug
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/regulatingIn this episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, Dallas sits down with Doug Marshall, a trauma-informed life coach and somatic practitioner known online as "The World of Doug," for a deep dive into nervous system regulation and its central role in chemsex recovery. Doug, who facilitates re
EP 3:28 Chemsex Recovery: Stop Doing. Start Being.
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/beingIn this solo episode, Dallas Bragg shares a pivotal moment from his own early recovery — staying calm and unreactive during a near-collision in a gas station parking lot while his mother visited for Family Day at his treatment center — to introduce a framework he calls having, doing, being. Dallas
EP 3:27 Rewired for Connection: Life After Chemsex with David and Andrew
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/rewiredIn 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 ex
EP 3:26 Chemsex Recovery: Acceptance Stage
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/acceptancestageIn 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 — not
EP 3:25 Undetectable and Unashamed with Jose
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/unshamedIn 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. José
EP 3:24 Chemsex Recovery: Depression Stage
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/depressionIn 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 exper
EP 3:23 Dating App Hygiene in Chemsex Recovery with Mike
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/hygieneIn 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 conver
EP 3:22 Chemsex Recovery: Bargaining Stage
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/bargainingIn 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 because it
EP 3:21 Using Yoga in Chemsex Recovery with Malu
Send us Fan MailSupplementary Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/integrationIn 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 sup
EP 3:20 Chemsex Recovery: Anger Stage
Send us Fan MailSupplementary Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/angerstageIn 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 misu
EP 3:19 The Chemstories Podcast with Patrice and Bradley
Send us Fan MailSupplementary Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/chemstoriesIn 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 give
EP 3:18 Chemsex Recovery: Denial Stage
Send us Fan MailSupplementary Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/denialIn 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 t
EP 3:17 Where Does Intimacy Begin with Thr33
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/intimacybeginIn 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-long
EP 3:16 Chemsex Recovery: 5 Stages of Grief
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/griefIn 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 the we
EP 3:15 Shadow Work for Chemsex Recovery with Jamie
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/shadowIn 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 2015
EP 3:14 Next Level Amend Making
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/amendsIn 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 shares
EP 3:13 Adverse Childhood Experiences and Chemsex Misuse with Kit
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/ACEIn 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. Kit, w
EP 3:12 Why You Are Failing at Sober Sex
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/sobers**xIn 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'
EP 3:11 Meth-Induced Psychosis with Patrick
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/psychosisIn 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 Los
EP 3:10 The Difference Between Knowing and Doing
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/knowingvsdoingIn 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 dopami
EP 3:9 Feeling is Healing: A Trans Woman’s Perspective with Amanita
Send us Fan MailStudy Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/feelingishealingIn 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 Internationa
EP 3:8 Chemsex Recovery: The Shame of Starting at Zero
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/countingThe AfterMeth Podcast | Season 3 | Shame of Starting at ZeroIn 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 doin
EP 3:7 Healing for Sex Offenders with Scott
Send us Fan MailStudy Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/sexoffendersThe 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-conse
EP 3:6 When You Get the Fuck-It’s in Chemsex Recovery
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/fckitThe AfterMeth Podcast | Season 3 | Fuck-itsIn 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 navig
EP 3:5 Finding Sober Community: The Queerity App with Jordan
Send us Fan MailStudy Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/sobercommunityIn 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 abou
EP 3:4 Chemsex Alchemy: Turning Misery into Mission with Darren
Send us Fan MailStudy Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/miseryIn 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 abo
EP 3:3 Content Creation Post- Chemsex with Mason Cross
Send us Fan MailStudy Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/contentcreationThe AfterMeth Podcast | Season 3 | Guest: Mason CrossIn 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 cand
EP 3:2 Getting Back Into Your Body Post- Chemsex with Court
Send us Fan MailStudy Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/intoyourbodyDallas sits down with Court Vox — somatic sex and intimacy coach, surrogate partner, and founder of The Body Vox — for a rich conversation about erotic embodiment, conscious sexuality, and what it means to reconnect with your body after meth. Court draws on Audre Lorde's distinction between the erot
EP 3:1 Rebuilding Life Post-Treatment with Martijn
Send us Fan MailStudy Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/rebuildinglifeIn this episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, Dallas sits down with Martijn, co-founder of the Herstelcollectief —a Netherlands-based aftercare coaching organization serving men coming out of chemsex and addiction treatment. Martijn shares how the gap between clinical care and everyday life motivated him a
Best of Season 2: Attachment Styles and Chemsex Addiction with Mauricio
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/attachment In this episode, Dr. Dallas Bragg and clinical psychologist Mauricio Alvarez explore the intersection of chemsex, addiction, and mental health, particularly among men who have sex with men. The conversation covers: • Mauricio's background in neuroscience and clinical psychology • The neur
Best of Season 2: Loving Yourself AfterMeth with Brian Spitulik
Send us Fan MailStudy Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/lovingyourselfIn this episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, host Dr. Dallas Bragg interviews therapist Brian Spitulnik, who has gained significant attention on social media for his work with gay men. Brian, a psychotherapist who works primarily within a psychodynamic and Internal Family Systems framework, discusses his
100th Episode and Season 2 Finale: 7 Daily Practices for Chemsex Recovery
Send us Fan MailStudy Guide:https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/GuidedPracticesIn celebration of Episode 100 of The AfterMeth Podcast, Dallas Bragg delivers a milestone solo episode reflecting on two years of conversations that have reached men across the globe — men who have listened in hotel rooms to avoid using, found hope while coming down, or simply needed to feel seen. With
EP 2:50: Top Pitfalls of Chemsex Recovery with Dallas and Bobby
Send us Fan MailStudy Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/pitfallsThe AfterMeth Podcast welcomes assistant coach Bobby for a candid, experience-driven conversation about the most common pitfalls that hold men back in chemsex recovery. Dallas and Bobby each bring their own list of recovery obstacles to the table, comparing notes in real time to give listeners a comprehensiv
EP 2:49 Building Your Chemsex Free Community with Beau
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide:https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/chemsexcommunityIn this episode, Dallas is joined by Beau, creator of the Gather app, for an honest conversation about the challenge so many gay and queer men face in recovery: how do you build genuine community when your entire social world was built around chemsex, hookup apps, and party culture? Both D
EP 2:47 Healing for Couples Affected by Chemsex
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide:https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/HealingRelationshipsIn this episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, host Dr. Dallas Bragg sits down with Tom Bruett, LMFT and certified sex therapist, to explore the complex dynamics of relationships affected by crystal meth use. Tom, founder of the Queer Relationship Institute and author of "The Go To Rel
EP 2:46 Finding Your Chemsex Recovery Plan with Shane
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide:https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/ChemsexRecoveryIn this episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, host Dr. Dallas Bragg sits down with Shane Mayson, a recovery and life coach and interventionist with 22 years of personal recovery experience. Shane shares his journey from discovering drugs at age 13 in Charleston, South Carolina, through his prog
EP 2:45 Eroticism for Chemsex Recovery with Dr. Tom
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide:https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/EroticismIn this episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, host Dr. Dallas Bragg welcomes back Dr. Thomas Gaither, a urologist and academic researcher specializing in MSM sexual health, to explore the concept of eroticism and sexual reintegration after chemsex addiction. Drawing from Jack Morin's book "
EP 2:44 Artificial Intelligence for Chemsex Recovery with Richard
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/ArtificialIntelligenceIn this episode, Dallas welcomes Richard, a 59-year-old from the UK with a background in finance, who shares his innovative approach to Chemsex recovery through AI assistance. Richard discovered the power of AI (specifically Claude and ChatGPT) while managing a difficult situation w
EP 2:43 Mindful Masturbation for Chemsex Recovery with Kevin
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/MindfulmasturbationIn this essential episode, Dr. Dallas Bragg welcomes back Coach Kevin Martin (the Pleasure Priest) to explore mindful masturbation as a critical tool for sexual reintegration after Chemsex addiction. Kevin explains that mindful masturbation means bringing consciousness and intention t
EP 2:42 Loneliness is a Gift with Phil
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/lonelinessgiftIn this essential episode, Dr. Dallas Bragg welcomes Phil McAuliffe, founder of Humans:Connecting and The Loneliness Guy to explore one of the top reasons gay men relapse in recovery from crystal meth addiction: loneliness. Phil reframes loneliness as a vital signal—like hunger or thirst—th
EP 2:41 Encore: Fuck Like a Porn Star with Jayson Parker
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/jaysonIn this episode of The AfterMeth podcast, Dr. Dallas Bragg sits down with Jayson Parker, a successful adult content creator who transformed his relationship with sex and intimacy after overcoming methamphetamine addiction. This raw, honest conversation explores one of recovery's most challengi
EP 2:40 The Sociology of Chemsex with Chris
Send us Fan MailSupplimental Study Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/sociologyIn this episode, host Dallas Bragg sits down with Dr. Chris Conner, Stephen O Murray Faculty in Residence at Michigan State University. Dr. Conner has taught Drugs and Society for 7 years, and shares insights from research on Chemsex use in the gay community. He identifies two particularly vuln
EP 2:39 Chemsex Advocacy: A Gay Man Using His Voice with Giulio
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide:https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/matterIn this compelling episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, host Dr. Dallas Bragg sits down with Giulio, an Italian activist who holds the unique titles of Mr. Gay Italy 2010, Mr. Gay Europe 2011, and Mr. Gay World 2025. Giulio shares his personal journey through chemsex addiction, revealing how what began
EP 2:38 Intervention Advice for Families with Brad
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/interventionIn this powerful conversation, Dr. Dallas Bragg interviews renowned interventionist Brad Lamm, who has conducted over 1,300 interventions and brings both professional expertise and lived experience with methamphetamine addiction. Lamm shares his journey of struggling with meth from 1986 throu
EP 2:37 The Myth of Abstinence with Dr. Adi Jaffe
Send us Fan MailSupplimental Study Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/abstinenceIn this powerful episode, host Dr. Dallas Bragg sits down with addiction expert Dr. Adi Jaffe, bestselling author of "The Abstinence Myth" and "Unhooked," to challenge conventional recovery approaches. Dr. Jaffe argues that the traditional recovery system is fundamentally br
EP 2:36 Using Comedy to Heal Chemsex Misuse With Alex
Send us Fan MailSupplimental Study Guidehttps://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/comedyIn this episode, host Dr. Dallas Bragg welcomes Alex Parsons, a standup comedian, improviser, and actor from Asheville, North Carolina, who shares his raw and honest journey through crystal meth addiction and recovery. Alex, who identifies as neurodivergent with an ADHD diagnosis (and a previous misd
EP 2:35 The Resurrection of Recovery with Jacques
Send us Fan MailSupplimental Study Guide:https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/resurrectionIn this powerful episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, host Dr. Dallas Bragg sits down with Jacques, a South African survivor who shares his remarkable 11-year journey with crystal meth and his successful recovery without formal rehabilitation. Jacques opens up about how low self-esteem, body dysm
Ep 2:34 Neurodivergence and Chemsex Recovery with Brian
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/neurodivergenceIn this episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, host Dr. Dallas Bragg welcomes New York City psychotherapist Brian Molloy for an in-depth exploration of ADHD and neurodiversity as they relate to chemsex addiction. Both a mental health counselor and a person living with ADHD, Brian brings firsth
Bonus Episode: From Slamming to Sober: Alex's Story
Send us Fan MailIn this powerful episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, host Dr. Dallas Bragg interviews Alex, a client who successfully completed the Recovery Alchemy program after battling severe crystal meth addiction. Alex shares his compelling journey from childhood trauma—including molestation at age five and growing up with a father struggling with addiction—to discovering Adderall at 19, which
EP 2:33 ChemFriendly: Safety for Sex Workers with Andres
Send us Fan MailSupplemental Study Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/chemfriendlyIn this episode, host Dr. Dallas Bragg welcomes Andres Lekanger, chairman of Chemfriendly Norway, to discuss Chemsex, drug use, and harm reduction within the queer community. The conversation explores how Chemsex is defined differently depending on context and community needs—ranging from a b
EP 2:32 The Art of Intimate Connection with Zari
Send us Fan MailSupplimental Study Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/connectionIIn this powerful episode, Dr. Dallas Bragg speaks with Zari, an artist and author living on a remote Greek island, about his groundbreaking book "Play With Me" - a collection of intimacy games designed to help men reconnect with authentic sexual experiences after chemsex addiction.
EP 2:31: Chemsex And the Brain with Stephen
Send us Fan MailSupplimental Study Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/brainIn this episode, host Dr. Dallas Bragg speaks with Dr. Stephen Naulls, a psychiatrist based in Brighton, UK, about his groundbreaking research initiative "Chem Sex and the Brain." Dr. Naulls explains the significant gap in current research: while individual substances like crystal meth ha
EP 2:30 The Gift of Rock Bottom with Kevin
Send us Fan MailStudy Guide:https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/rockbottomThis episode features Kevin R. Davis, a 56-year-old model who will celebrate seven and a half years of recovery from crystal meth addiction next month. Kevin's journey began with 20 years of use, initially to manage chronic pain and undiagnosed ADHD, which later became intertwined with his sexuality and
EP 2:29 Dating AfterMeth with Coach Danny
Send us Fan MailSupplimental Study Guide: https://www.drdallasbragg.com/newsletters/blog/posts/datingIn this episode of The AfterMeth Podcast, host Dr. Dallas Bragg interviews Coach Danny Morales, a Dating and Relationship Coach who specializes in helping gay and bisexual men build self-confidence and navigate healthy relationships. The conversation explores the complexities of bisexual identity
