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Original Articles

“What goes up must go down”: An exploration of the relationship between drug-related pleasure and harm experienced by a sample of regular “party drug” users

Pages 185-192 | Received 26 May 2014, Accepted 04 Feb 2015, Published online: 16 Mar 2015

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