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Noreen Oliver MBE (born 23 April 1960) is a British businesswoman, rehabilitation centre owner and advocate of drug and alcohol policy reform. She is the founder and CEO of addiction treatment centres in Burton-upon-Trent and Clayton, Staffordshire. ==Biography== She attended Christ the King Catholic Voluntary Academy, Nottinghamshire. She completed O-Levels in English, history, domestic science and science. She received a postgraduate degree in marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. From 1975 to 1998, she worked in various positions and industries, including as a dental nurse, director of patient services at a private clinic, pharmaceutical representative, healthcare liaison worker in the community, and marketing manager and volunteer at the Nottingham Clinic. She began drinking at age 16 and suffered from alcoholism for years; her first alcohol detox treatment was at age 25. She recalls, "I was a functioning alcoholic. I held down two jobs. But towards the end there were emergency admissions to hospital. I had consultants screaming that I was going through liver failure."〔 By 1992, at age 31, she was drinking a bottle of gin a day and was hospitalised with cirrhosis. She was malnourished and weighed just ; her stomach was so shrunken that she was unable to eat. At one point she was so ill she was given last rites by a priest; after surviving, she vowed to turn her life around. She attempted detox nine times in total.〔 After her near death experience, her family arranged for her to attend a rehabilitation clinic in Nottingham. She recalled, "I shared a room with a female crack addict who also worked the streets. This was a completely alien thing to me and, at first, I was horrified but soon realised she was not so different to me."〔 She stopped drinking completely in 1993.〔 She soughts doctors' advice on how she could help others and ultimately founded her own treatment centre. "I started in two rooms, remortgaged my home, and it began to grow from there."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Noreen Oliver」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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