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Taylor Edelman

Taylor Edelman

Harm reduction consultant and healthcare compliance officer at Circle Care Center, Connecticut's largest independent LGBTQ+ health provider.

Aug 13, 2026

8:52
What do you see as far as chem sex goes? What do you see the role of harm reduction in that? I mentioned the research that's out there, but how do you see it helping?
9:06
Yes.
9:08
So in my experience, because in my previous kind of work and work that I still do largely, I work with many harm reduction programs.
9:18
in New York, specifically in New York City.
9:21
And what was very interesting to me is I kind of went in with this naivete thinking like, oh, okay, everybody knows about chem sex, right? Drugs are drugs across the board, not realizing that the majority of programs, which weren't queer and trans led, they were focusing on, you know, cocaine, crack and opioids.
9:40
So when I was talking about things like meth, like G, right, like ketamine, MDMA, it was kind of like, you know, it's almost like that meme with that lady looking around.
9:49
It's all like the math being done.

15 MINS LATER

24:35
So can you tell us a little bit about how chemsex looks across the trans population? Like, how does it differ? Yeah.

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