Mayo Clinic Health System -

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Mayo Clinic Health System
Mayo Clinic Health System
is located at 1900 Tebeau Street Waycross, GA. 31501 and can be contacted by calling 912-338-6338. Mayo Clinic Health System offers treatment services for Alcoholism, Illicit Drug Addiction and Prescription Drug Abuse

Treatment Services Offered: Mental Balance Treatment Services, Inpatient Hospital Treatment, Over 50, Hearing Impaired Clients
Payment Options: Payment Assistance Through Medicaid, Medicare Assistance, Insurance - Private Pay, Insurance - Military, Self Pay

Chronic heavy alcohol consumption can reduce the body's responsiveness to insulin and cause glucose intolerance in both healthy individuals and alcoholics with liver cirrhosis.
An estimated one-third of youth begin drinking alcohol before the age of 13.
Because alcohol's effects do vary with age, an elderly person that drinks may experience slower reaction times, problems with hearing and seeing, and a lower tolerance to alcohol's effects; these factors obviously put older people at higher risk for falls, car crashes, and other types of injuries that may result from drinking.
During 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention documented an increase in the number of alcohol related deaths on college campuses throughout the United States; most of these deaths were reported to be due to accidental alcohol poisoning.

For more information, visit www.drug-rehabs.org.