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 P...