Tweakers: How Crystal Meth Is Ravaging Gay America

Drawing upon conversations with addicts as well as experts in the gay community and at drug treatment centers, journalist Frank Sanello examines how crystal-meth abuse is reaching epidemic levels among gay men, and how almost one-third of the new cases of HIV are caused by the decreased mental capacity associated with crystal. Tweakers get a quick, cheap high, an exhilarating loss of inhibition and increased stamina at the price of permanent behavioral changes, brain damage and death.

Frank Sanello is a Los Angeles-based journalist whose work has appeared in "The Washington Post," the "Los Angeles Times," the "Chicago Tribune," "The Boston Globe" and the "New York Times Syndicate," He is the author of "Opium Wars," "The Knights Templar" and "To Kill a King,"