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EDITORIAL

Using drugs for sex: playing with risk?

Garrett Prestage
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A National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, The University of New South Wales, 376 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia.

B Australian Research Centre in Sex Health and Society, La Trobe University, 215 Franklin Street, Melbourne, Vic. 3000, Australia.

C Email: gprestage@nchecr.unsw.edu.au

Sexual Health 6(3) 175-177 https://doi.org/10.1071/SH09015
Submitted: 16 February 2009  Accepted: 26 May 2009   Published: 3 August 2009


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