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

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  EP 3:48 How to Build Your Chemsex Recovery Team 21.09.2026 24min

  Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/build In 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 get is "I'm here if you need me," which Dallas calls about as useful as a fart in the wind at eleven o'c...
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  EP 3:47 Self-Empowered Chemsex Recovery with Damon 17.09.2026 1h 8min

  Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/selfempowered Host 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 fear of drugs back through a century of racially motivated drug panics and explains that language like ...
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  EP 3:46 Chemsex Recovery: You Already Want it Enough 14.09.2026 19min

  Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/enough In 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 and get back on the apps. At the time Dallas told him he must not want it badly enough, a response he now names...
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  EP 3:45 How To Stop Repeating Patterns in Chemsex Recovery with Juan 10.09.2026 55min

  Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/repeating Host 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 responses — trauma-formed survival mechanisms that have lived in the body for years and can't simply be though...
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  EP 3:44 Combating Euphoric Recall: The Post-Use Video 07.09.2026 16min

  Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/post In 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 looming, and no one left to call. With nothing else to do, he propped his phone on the dresser and...
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  EP 3:43 Three Types of Chemsex User Profiles with Dr. Lockwood 03.09.2026 1h

  Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/profiles In 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 productivity crowd out relationships, and how a simple weekly text can chip away at isolation. ...
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  EP 3:42 The Three Pillars of Chemsex Recovery 31.08.2026 27min

  Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/pillars In 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 of time that follows quitting, the liminal space where a man suddenly has hours, energy, a...
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  EP 3:41 Chemsex Recovery: The Breakthrough Moment with Domtopics 27.08.2026 1h

  Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/breakthrough Episode 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 brings a distinctive vantage point shaped by more than a decade volunteering with Impulse, an organizatio...
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  EP 3:40 Top Chemsex Trigger: Re-Entry 24.08.2026 26min

  Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/reentry In 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 explains why this transition catches so many men off guard. After a week riding a "dopamin...
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  EP 3:39 Late-Bloomers and Chemsex with Darrell 20.08.2026 1h 2min

  Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/late In 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 own story of coming out at thirty-six and the relentless drive to "make up for lost time" that p...
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  EP 3:38 Hidden Chemsex Trigger: Unspoken Conversations 17.08.2026 14min

  Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/unspoken In 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 rather than causes, and that the real driver sits further upstream in the form of emotional dys...
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  EP 3:37 Harm Reduction for Chemsex Recovery with Taylor 13.08.2026 52min

  Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/reduction In 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 of managed use, tapering, and planned use, and invites listeners who "just can't seem to stop" o...
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  EP 3:36 Chemsex Recovery: Reasons vs. Excuses 10.08.2026 12min

  Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/reasons In 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 describing it sounded like they lived in different universes. The first didn't flinch: he lai...
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  EP 3:35 Dallas Interviews His Kids AfterMeth 06.08.2026 44min

  Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/kids In 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 an improvised, unguarded conversation that returns to the day, eight years earlier, when t...
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  EP 3:34 YOU aren’t a chemsex addict 03.08.2026 24min

  Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/chemsexaddict In 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 and part of him didn't, then who was the one watching both? That moment became the seed o...
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  EP 3:33 Open Relationships 101 with Aidan 30.07.2026 1h 2min

  Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/relationships In 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 about his own evolving bias, shaped by painful past experiences with a broken open relationship, and u...
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  EP 3:32 3 Ways to Actually Love Yourself in Chemsex Recovery 27.07.2026 16min

  Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/love In 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 revelation is that both images were lying, because both showed only half of him—and, as he pu...
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  EP 3:31 Chemsex Harm Reduction and Homelessness with Thiccums 23.07.2026 55min

  Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/homeless In 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 conversation about loss, survival, and the slow work of reclaiming one's worth. Thiccums traces a life that o...
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  EP 3:30 Chemsex Recovery: The Glitching Phase 20.07.2026 12min

  Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/glitching In 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 rail across Charlotte at 2am to a run-down motel room, sitting in deafening silence after a life that had...
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  EP 3:29 Regulating the Nervous System with Doug 16.07.2026 1h 3min

  Send us Fan Mail Supplemental Study Guide: https://www.recoveryalchemy.org/newsletters/blog/posts/regulating In 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 recovery groups in Los Angeles and works with clients one-on-one and in online communities, brings both cli...