The owner of a collapsed Victorian private drug rehabilitation centre that owes more than $2 million to creditors sold assets and opened a new rehab with a similar name days before going into liquidation.
The owner of a collapsed Victorian private drug rehabilitation centre that owes more than $2 million to creditors sold assets and opened a new rehab with a similar name days before going into liquidation. “If you’re in real estate, you have to have a licence,” she said. “If you’re building a house, you’ve got to have building inspectors. You buy a dog, the dog has to be registered. There is nothing on these people. Anyone can just set up.”
However, the former worker added that the rehab successfully helped some people with less complex issues beat their addiction. that the state government regulate the industry, including a mandatory licensing scheme and qualification standards for counsellors. “They seemed like they had been employed straight out of AA [self-help group Alcoholics Anonymous],” she said. “You can see they were out of their depth.”