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Heterosexual chemsex?

Posted on May 4, 2018 by

Much in the news at the moment is a recent study (Palamar & Cleland) of nonmedical opioid drug use amongst you people on the electronic dance music (EDM) ‘scene’ in New York. But the phenomenon is by no means confined to that city (Kurtz & Surratt). To appreciate what all the fuss is about, we […]

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ChemSex, Drugs and HCV transmission, HIV and drugs, Intravenous drug use, Non-intravenous drug users

ChemSex and HCV transmission among UK MSM

Posted on February 2, 2015 by

Reports of substantial rises in the incidence of HCV among MSM populations in the UK  (STI/Yaphe & Klein;  STI/Ghosn & Chaix) have attracted some attention in STI journal.  Not least because intravenous drug use is the most obvious mode of transmission for this blood-borne virus, and MSM have in the past tended not to use this route of administration.  […]

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Drugs and HCV transmission, Hepatitis C

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