If you're up on your gay blogs you probably already caught the news that gay—er, "men who have sex with men" are five times more likely to contract HIV if they use meth. Of course, even if you're not up on your gay blogs you shouldn't be too surprised to hear the news. Some gay sites were leading with this story today, but we held off because we know you're smart like that...

at the very least, we hope you're smart enough to know that drugs are bad (mm-kay?), but who doesn't know that?

But, in essence, isn't that basically what this study—and all the studies like it and all the news bits reporting on those studies again and again—is doing? Our humble opinion is that the meth mess is more a problem of rampant—and dangerous—self-medication by a segment of our community who feels too exiled from homophobic society to seek out beneficial help. But what do we know? We're no doctors.