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Chasing the rainbow: pleasure, sex-based sociality and consumerism in navigating and exiting the Irish Chemsex scene

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Pages 1074-1086 | Received 05 Jun 2018, Accepted 25 Sep 2018, Published online: 02 Jan 2019

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