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TITLE 28 - Mental Health
RS 28:21.1 - Substance-related and addictive disorders; treatment in state psychiatric hospitals
Universal Citation: LA Rev Stat § 28:21.1 (2018)
§21.1. Substance-related and addictive disorders; treatment in state psychiatric hospitals
A. The Louisiana Department of Health is authorized to accept indigent patients suffering from co-occurring substance-related or addictive disorders and to give such patients the care and treatment required.
B. The purpose of this Section is to recognize substance-related and addictive disorders as a sickness or disease and to place those suffering from it in the same position relative to obtaining treatment as persons suffering from other diseases.
Added by Acts 1952, No. 288, §§1 to 3; Acts 1978, No. 786, §3, eff. July 17, 1978; Acts 2017, No. 369, §2.
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