Legal and illegal drug use among female sex workers in bar and club prostitution in Belgium: A quantitative and qualitative study
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Karolien van Nunen, Elke Leuridan, Guido Van Hal, Pierre Van Damme, & Tom Decorte Department of Epidemiology and Social Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Research Group Medical Sociology and Health Policy, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, and Department of Penal Law and Criminology, Faculty of Law, Institute for Social Drug Research, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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