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Public needs to know which drug programmes are making a tangible difference

Public needs to know which drug programmes are making a tangible difference
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Why the Ministry of Health pulled the plug on a million dollar methamphetamine programme for gang members

Black Power member Denis O Reilly talks about what went wrong with the CART meth programme. A $1m scheme to get gangsters off meth collapsed amid internal dissent over treatment methods, staff turnover and concerns that few people were being helped. Tony Wall reports. In February 2018, Florence Leota, a senior advisor in the Ministry of Health s addictions treatment team, emailed her boss, group manager for addiction Richard Taylor, over concerns about a programme to get predominantly Black Power gang members off methamphetamine. The programme, called Wakatika Ora, was being run by the Consultancy Advocacy and Research Trust (CART) – a social action group with a long history of working with gang communities, using a $920,000 grant from money seized under proceeds of crime legislation.

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Taxpayers $500k for meth treatment goes up in smoke

Taxpayers $500k for meth treatment goes up in smoke Newsroom 22/01/2021 © Provided by Newsroom A government contract for a P rehab programme was canned after half a million dollars of taxpayer money was given out. Aaron Smale investigates. The Ministry of Health spent over half a million dollars on a P Rehab contract before pulling the pin because there were no results or progress reports. The programme ended up being run by a community trust set up to help the marginalised, including gangs, despite having been pitched as a joint service with the Salvation Army, and announced by former Prime Minister John Key as being funded through that church.

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