drug slang varies from location to location, and subculture to subculture

i've heard speed used generically for any upper in many different circumstances, street slang does not lend itself well to pedantic arguments

the article in no way proves the casuality implied in the headline between the drugs and the infections
a more likely theory to me would be that people who crave the thrills of speed and don't care about the risks, are the exact same people who crave the thrills of barebacking it, and don't care about the risks.

More evidence that gays are promiscuous in their relations and in their drugs usage.
given that the article explicitly states that it's a minority of the gay population that has this issue with drugs and stds, extrapolating from that to all gays is clearly logically fallacious and unwarranted