'Everything now is just 'Tina, Tina, Tina!': How a deadly sex party drug is exploding in Manchester
It's a drug often associated with backwater America and 'before and after' mugshots of addiction-ravaged faces. But experts are warning crystal meth use is exploding on Greater Manchester's gay chemsex party scene.
Several users interviewed for the GM Trends study said its use was widespread. "From personal experience, being involved in that scene in Manchester, I can certainly say that in the last 12-18 months, there’s been an explosion of use of crystal meth around Manchester," one told the researchers. "I would be horrified to have taken that, looking back. But everything now is just ‘Tina, Tina, Tina!'"
There's also 'Pink Champagne' - a pink form of the drug which is among the most expensive on sale. Users often take meth alongside the depressants GHB and GBL - a combo known as a 'T and G' or 'G and T' - to help them come down. The deadly risks of mixing meth and GHB were highlighted in a 2020 court case at Manchester Crown Court. It heard 24-year-old chef Hiran Chauhan died at a flat in Salford after having chemsex with Tesco worker Neil Cuckson.
Cuckson was jailed for six years after pleading guilty to administering a poison or noxious substance so as to endanger life, perverting the course of justice, preventing a lawful burial, supplying class A drug crystal meth, supplying class C drug GBH.
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