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  • Former hedge funder hikes price on drug for HIV-related toxoplasmosis

    By on September 22, 2015

    Depending on your personal views or political leanings, Martin Shkreli is either a defender of capitalism who will use his money to benefit greater research...

  • Big Buzz

    By on January 9, 2014

    It's fair enough to say that I've been fucked up a few times in my life. I point that out because, with the legalization of...

  • Caron Honors Kristen

    By on July 9, 2008

    Local resident Kristen Degan was honored with a ''Research Award'' from the Caron Drug & Alcohol Treatment Center, at the organization's Fourth Annual Washington Metropolitan...

  • Meth Movie

    By on April 30, 2008

    Tweakers, a movie born of collaboration by two members of the West Hollywood Lesbian and Gay Advisory Board, Jimmy Palmieri and Sue Sexton, hoping to...

  • Case Dismissed

    By on February 20, 2008

    Ending an odyssey that began in October of last year, popular local DJ Rob Harris has been exonerated. U.S. District Judge Theresa Carroll Buchanan on...

  • Meth by the Numbers

    By on December 5, 2007

    Thomas McDermitt was battling addiction long before discovering ''crystal.'' In the five years since graduating from high school in 1986, McDermitt outgrew his alcohol addiction...

  • A New Honor

    By on September 12, 2007

    The Center-Home for GLBT in Metro D.C. has announced it will be holding its annual fall fundraiser Sept. 19 to honor the five co-founders of...

  • Defining a Foe

    By on February 28, 2007

    Continuing its series of ''town hall'' style forums to discuss methamphetamine use in Washington, the D.C. Crystal Meth Working Group (CMWG) Monday evening, Feb. 26,...

  • Local Briefs

    By on January 17, 2007

    The D.C. Crystal Meth working group will be conducting surveys and outreach efforts in gay bars and clubs Jan. 25 through 27, part of the...

  • Tina Time

    By on December 6, 2006

    A full spectrum of anti-crystal-meth groups, from the grassroots on up, turned out at Whitman-Walker Clinic for a local recognition of National Methamphetamine Awareness Day,...

  • Velvet Touch

    By on June 28, 2006

    Here is what Ed Bailey will be doing on Saturday, July 15, the closing night of Velvet Nation, the seven-year, mammoth dance event he created...

  • Life After Meth

    By on May 31, 2006

    When five o'clock arrived on Friday afternoon, my 64-hour vacation began. First priority: to hit the Internet for a hot guy to host. Perhaps 12...

  • PSA tackles ''PNP''

    By on March 15, 2006

    Crystal methamphetamine has plagued the local gay community, with addiction to the drug growing steadily during the past five years, according to public health officials....

  • Searching for STDs

    By on February 15, 2006

    Twelve months ago, almost to the week, gay men were hearing the alarm about STDs on the horizon: a new ''super strain'' of HIV and...

  • Health Matters

    By on January 4, 2006

    Crystalization CRYSTAL METHAMPHETAMINE had D.C.'s gay community buzzing in 2005, but not in the usual way. In March, the D.C.-based National Coalition for LGBT Health...