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

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• EP 3:27 Rewired for Connection: Life After Chemsex with David and Andrew 09.07.2026 48min

  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 experience with chemsex to the conversation. Together, the three announce an exciting new offerin...
• EP 3:26 Chemsex Recovery: Acceptance Stage 06.07.2026 22min

  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 — not a finish line or a moment of resolution, but a daily orientation, a practice of inhabiting the ...
• EP 3:25 Undetectable and Unashamed with Jose 02.07.2026 1h 4min

  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. José opens up about growing up in a single-parent household, seeking validation from older men as a...
• EP 3:24 Chemsex Recovery: Depression Stage 29.06.2026 17min

  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 experiencing severe symptoms or suicidal ideation to seek professional support. Drawing on his ...
• EP 3:23 Dating App Hygiene in Chemsex Recovery with Mike 25.06.2026 48min

  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 conversation — having navigated his own recovery from methamphetamine use across the United States an...
• EP 3:22 Chemsex Recovery: Bargaining Stage 22.06.2026 19min

  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 because it feels the most reasonable. Unlike denial's numbness or anger's volatility, bargaining arr...
• EP 3:21 Using Yoga in Chemsex Recovery with Malu 18.06.2026 1h 6min

  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 supported his own sobriety journey — one rooted in alcohol use and a high-pressure career in New Y...
• EP 3:20 Chemsex Recovery: Anger Stage 15.06.2026 17min

  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 misunderstood. Rather than framing anger as a sign of emotional failure or ingratitude toward sobriety, ...
• EP 3:19 The Chemstories Podcast with Patrice and Bradley 11.06.2026 1h 1min

  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 gives gay, bisexual, queer men, as well as trans and non-binary people a platform to tell their chemsex ...
• EP 3:18 Chemsex Recovery: Denial Stage 08.06.2026 16min

  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 to die in order to reveal the man who was always there beneath the addiction. This episode focus...
• EP 3:17 Where Does Intimacy Begin with Thr33 04.06.2026 55min

  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-long evolution of their friendship as a living case study in building real connection. From their fi...
• EP 3:16 Chemsex Recovery: 5 Stages of Grief 01.06.2026 14min

  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 the weight of being a gay man in a world that demands so much. Walking away means grieving the version of yours...
• EP 3:15 Shadow Work for Chemsex Recovery with Jamie 28.05.2026 1h 12min

  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 2015 calling for chemsex to be recognized as a public health issue. With 22 years of frontline practice ...
• EP 3:14 Next Level Amend Making 25.05.2026 15min

  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 shares the story of a former restaurant manager named Kyle, whom he despised for being "arrogant," only to ...
• EP 3:13 Adverse Childhood Experiences and Chemsex Misuse with Kit 21.05.2026 58min

  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. Kit, who specializes in religious trauma-informed therapy for queer people, opens by sharing h...
• EP 3:12 Why You Are Failing at Sober Sex 18.05.2026 13min

  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't that sobriety took something away, it's that the ruler being used to measure sex was rigged from ...
• EP 3:11 Meth-Induced Psychosis with Patrick 14.05.2026 55min

  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 Los Angeles who has spent his career working across every level of substance use treatment. Togeth...
• EP 3:10 The Difference Between Knowing and Doing 11.05.2026 21min

  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 dopamine regulation, euphoric recall, and the neuroscience of addiction, yet remain frozen on th...
• EP 3:9 Feeling is Healing: A Trans Woman’s Perspective with Amanita 07.05.2026 1h 6min

  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 International Chemsex Conference in Antwerp, and their conversation picks up with the same warmth and intellectu...
• EP 3:8 Chemsex Recovery: The Shame of Starting at Zero 04.05.2026 14min

  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 doing more harm than good. Drawing on neuroscience, relapse statistics, and his direct experience ...