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Long Leaf Hospital
Long Leaf Hospital
is located at 44 Versailles Boulevard Alexandria, LA. 71303 and can be contacted by calling 318-445-5111. Long Leaf Hospital offers treatment services for Illicit Drug Addiction, Prescription Drug Abuse and Alcoholism

Treatment Services Offered: Mental Balance Treatment Services, Inpatient Hospital Treatment, Dual Diagnosis, AIDS/HIV Clients, Lesbian and Gay, Over 50
Payment Options: Payment Assistance Through Medicaid, Medicare Assistance, Insurance - Private Pay, Insurance - Military, Self Pay, Sliding-Scale Fee

The alcoholic family's home environment and the way that family members interact may contribute to the risk for the problems observed among children of those alcoholics.
Observers a century ago saw that alcoholic mothers produced children with significant mental and physical deficiencies.
According to a study that was conducted by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), decades of heavy drinking (as in alcohol abuse or dependence) can destroy brain cells; this is particularly true as pertaining to in memory part of the brain, which is called the hippocampus.
320 000 young people between the age of 15 and 29 die from alcohol-related causes, resulting in 9% of all deaths in that age group.

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