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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Clustered drug and sexual HIV risk among a sample of middle-aged injection drug users, Houston, Texas

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Pages 895-903 | Received 23 Mar 2012, Accepted 19 Sep 2012, Published online: 24 Oct 2012

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