The first thing is that we don't have a specialized hospital. We are a relatively small country, scattered over quite a long area. Centralizing resources into one point would cause us more difficulties than it would solve problems.
We look for specialist services in our particular area. There are people who are skilled in psychology and counselling scattered all over the country. We go through each of those who have the capability to provide that type of care and ask them to undertake contract work for us with our veterans.
If there's no one in the local area of the veteran, we will pay the veteran's travel to counselling. Usually it will be on a weekly or a fortnightly basis until they get to a position where they are quite stable and the treatment is complete. So the treatment is either available in the local community or we transport the person there.
I am quite a fan of keeping people at home. We used to have places where we would send people who had, for example, addictions to alcohol or drugs. We would send them to an institution. They would get cured in the institution, but when they left and went back to their home environment, there were other pressures on them. We found that the percentage of people who were staying cured was much less than among those who were being treated in their homes.
Nearly all of the alcohol and drug addiction services today treat people at home. They go to services in their local community. If you keep people at home, where their family is around and all the other support services are around them, the changes they make in their lives are in their home environment. So when the treatment is finished, they continue on in their home environment and there's no transition problem.