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Noreen Oliver Biography
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.
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 6 stone (84 lb); 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 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.”
In 1998, she founded the Burton Addiction Centre, now the BAC O’Connor Centre, in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and in 2002 opened a second BAC O’Connor Centre in Clayton. She has stated that BAC has one of the highest rates of success for helping people rehabilitate from drug and alcohol addictions and integrate into society. In 2011, she told the BBC that the centre’s figures show 74 percent of drug users and 83 percent of alcoholics being sober two years after completing the 18-week programme; the UK national average is 30 percent sober six years after treatment.
She has been married to Tony Oliver, a prison officer, since 2005. She has a stepdaughter and two grandchildren.
She also won the Daily Mirror People’s Award for Justice in 2006.
The centre earned the highest scores in the United Kingdom from the Healthcare Commission in 2006 and has become nationally renowned, eliciting praise from Prime Minister David Cameron. The Staffordshire County Council plans to use the BAC O’Connor Centre as a template to open other similar centres across Staffordshire.
Oliver was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to disadvantaged people in Staffordshire, as part of the 2009 New Year Honours.
In 2010, she received a lifetime achievement award from the Centre for Social Justice. The recipient of the award is selected annually by the group’s co-founder, MP Iain Duncan Smith. She now sits on the CSJ’s board of directors as chairman of the Addictions Working Group.
Oliver is a strong advocate of abstinence-based recovery. In 2010, she founded the Recovery Group UK, an alliance of academics, rehabilitation service providers and drug- and alcohol-related organisations. The Recovery Group UK is an advocacy group working toward what Oliver calls “a balanced, integrated, seamless treatment system focused on recovery.” Oliver was a speaker at the 2011 UK and European Symposium on Addictive Disorders (UKESAD) in London.
In 2010, Burton Addiction Centre opened Langan’s Tea Rooms in Burton-on-Trent, a social enterprise that employs recovering addicts. Langan’s Tea Rooms, which takes its title from her maiden name, was built in a former restaurant located in a historic building, Burton House. Burton MP Andrew Griffiths is a patron of the organisation.
Prior to the 2012 Olympics in London, Oliver was invited to carry the Olympic flame during the relay in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.
Through her activism she has become friends with former drug addict Russell Brand, who sought her advice about what to do with funds he had raised to help addicts. She is interviewed in his 2014 BBC Three documentary, End the Drugs War, in which Brand visits the BAC Centre and attends a graduation ceremony for a recovering addict who had just completed the programme. He also visited the Langan’s Tea Rooms; he subsequently opened a similar social enterprise, the Trew Era Cafe. She also appears in Brand: A Second Coming, a 2015 documentary about Brand’s activism.
What's Noreen Oliver Net Worth 2024
| Net Worth (2024) | $1 Million (Approx.) |
| Net Worth (2023) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2022) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2021) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2020) | Under Review |
Noreen Oliver Family
| Father's Name | Not Available |
| Mother's Name | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Available |
| Childrens | Not Available |
