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Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies
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Research Article

Vulnerability to drug use and risky sexual behaviours: youth and adolescents coping with trauma and stress in protracted displacement in Abuja

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Pages 545-553 | Received 07 Jun 2022, Accepted 18 May 2023, Published online: 24 May 2023

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