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Unveiling an ‘invisible population’: health, substance use, sexual behavior, culture, and discrimination among urban American Indian/Alaska Native adolescents in California

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Pages 845-862 | Received 21 Aug 2018, Accepted 17 Dec 2018, Published online: 09 Jan 2019

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