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Sexual Abuse and Drinking and Drug Use: Implications for Prevention

Journal of Drug Education, 1993
Based on a survey of adolescent females in grades seven through twelve in a suburban school system, the relationship between drinking, drug use, and sexual abuse is examined. Using a holistic approach to adolescent deviant behavior, connections between family, peer, psychosocial factors and drug use and delinquency are explored. Girls who report sexual
W D, Watts, A M, Ellis
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Drug Use and Sexual Activity on a College Campus

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1972
A questionnaire study on one college campus revealed that drug users were significantly more likely to engage in sexual intercourse, to engage in it earlier in life, and to engage in it regularly and with a greater variety of partners. This held true regardless of the specific indicator of drug use employed, as well as when the two control variables ...
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Nonmedical Use of Prescription Drugs and Sexual Risk Behaviors

Pediatrics, 2016
BACKGROUND: Substance use is associated with sexual risk behaviors among youth, but little is known about whether nonmedical prescription drug use, an increasingly common behavior, is associated with sexual risk behaviors.
Heather B, Clayton, Richard, Lowry, Euna, August, Sherry, Everett Jones   +3 more
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AIDS: Sexual Behavior and Intravenous Drug Use.

Population and Development Review, 1989
Since the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic is partly a social phenomenon changes in the social behaviors that spread the disease are as necessary as the development of vaccines and other therapies. To help in the design implementation and evaluation of programs to curb the spread of AIDS there is a need for greater understanding of ...
[John Bongaarts], Charles F. Turner, Heather G. Miller, Lincoln E. Moses   +3 more
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Sexual dysfunction and commonly used drugs in neurology

Practical Neurology
Sexual dysfunction is common in men and women with neurological diseases. Medications used in neurology can cause sexual dysfunction independently of the disease process and this may adversely affect patients’ quality of life. This review focuses on medications commonly prescribed to neurological patients that may contribute to altered sexual function,
Maya Behn, Jane Kielhofner, Jalesh N Panicker, Tamara B Kaplan   +3 more
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Drug Injection and Sexual Mixing Patterns of Drug-Using Male Sex Workers

Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 2003
Drug-using male sex workers (DUMSWs) are known to have large numbers of drug injection and sex partners.The purpose of this study was to describe the assortative and disassortative drug injection and sexual mixing patterns of DUMSWs. Implications of the high rates of disassortative mixing patterns of DUMSWs for HIV infection are discussed. Implications
Mark L, Williams, Anne M, Bowen, Sandra, Timpson, K, Blair Keel   +3 more
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MSM and Drug Use: A Latent Class Analysis of Drug Use and Related Sexual Risk Behaviors

AIDS and Behavior, 2013
This study examined patterns of drug use among gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) to identify sub-categories of men whose drug use and sexual behavior place them at especially high risk for HIV. A latent class analysis of a sample of MSM yielded a four-class model with two distinct high drug use sub-groups: one whose drug use ...
David, McCarty-Caplan, Ian, Jantz, James, Swartz   +2 more
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Alcohol and Drug Use during Sexual Activity

Journal of Adolescent Research, 1993
The relation of alcohol and drug use during sexual activity to increased HIV risk-associated behavior was examined among 108 inner-city Black male adolescents who completed a self-administered questionnaire. Adolescents who reported a greater number of days in which they had sex while "high" reported more unprotected coitus, a greater number of coital ...
John B. Jemmott, Loretta Sweet Jemmott
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A case of drug-facilitated sexual assault by the use of flunitrazepam

Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine, 2006
This article presents a case of drug-facilitated sexual assault on a female intoxicated with flunitrazepam. The male assailant added flunitrazepam (1 mg) to the female's soft drink, and had sexual intercourse with her while her consciousness was impaired. The complainant did not recall the events due to benzodiazepine-induced anterograde amnesia.
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Sexual identity, sexual behavior, and drug use behaviors among people who use drugs in the rural U.S.

Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment
Introduction People who use drugs (PWUD) are at risk of HIV infection, but the frequency and distribution of transmission-associated behaviors within rural communities is not well understood. Further, while interventions designed to more explicitly affirm individuals' sexual orientation and behaviors may be more effective, descriptions of behavior ...
Wiley D, Jenkins, Lauren B, Beach, John, Schneider, Samuel R, Friedman, Mai T, Pho, Suzan, Walters, Jerel, Ezell, April M, Young, Caitie, Hennessy, William C, Miller, Vivian F, Go, Christina, Sun, David W, Seal, Ryan P, Westergaard, Heidi M, Crane, Rob J, Fredericksen, Stephanie A, Ruderman, Scott, Fletcher, Jimmy, Ma, J A, Delaney, Karma, Plaisance, Judith, Feinberg, Gordon S, Smith, P Todd, Korthuis, Thomas J, Stopka, Peter D, Friedmann, William, Zule, Mike, Winer   +27 more
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