Excessive alcohol use and its association with risky sexual behaviour: a cross-sectional analysis of data from Victorian secondary school students is a study by Paul Argius and others recently published in the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health. The authors were concerned about the increase in both alcohol consumption and risky sexual behaviours (defined as multiple sexual partners, sexual encounters without protection, and regretted sex due to alcohol) in young people over the past decade. They surveyed a group of Victorian Year 11 students and concluded that "drinking excessive amounts of alcohol increases the odds of engaging in sexual practices that may carry potential health risks". They found the high numbers of young people who continue to engage in unprotected sex of great public health concern.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2013 37 (1): 76-82 (open access)
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