The Louisiana Commission on Alcoholism has endorsed a program for the treatment and rehabilitation of about 80,000 alcoholics in Louisiana.
Already recommended by Gov. Robert F. Kennon's committee on alcoholism, the program was endorsed yesterday at a meeting at Charity hospital.
Dr. Robert A. Matthews, chairman of the governor's committee, was requested by the commission to form a subcommittee to study means of hastening action on the recommended program and to ask Gov. Kennon for . instructions about approaching | the Legislature for funds.
Included on the subcommittee j will be P. S. O'Brien of Baton Rouge, chairman of the Louisiana Commission on Alcoholism. $550,000 Recommended
The governor's committee recommended a $150,000 appropriation for 1954-56 for continued alcoholic care at Charity hospital in New Orleans; a $100,000 appropriation for a program at Confederate Memorial hospital at Shreveport, and a $300,000 appropriation for the department of institutions for an alcoholic rehabilitation program.
Also recommended was an appropriation of $80,000 for commission use in 1954-56 for continuation of the commission primarily as an educationad and fact-finding body...
PHOTO CAPTION:DISCUSSING a proposed program for the treatment of alcoholics ■in Louisiana are, from left, EDWARD J. GAY JR., Baton Rouge, secretary of the Louisiana Commission on Alcoholism, DR. ROBERT A. MATTHEWS, and P. S. O'BRIEN.
