JOB STRESS PUSHES COPS TO ADDICTION
The Sunday Mirror|January 28, 2024
Officers get free rehab to cope with drug and booze problems
ISAAC CROWSON
JOB STRESS PUSHES COPS TO ADDICTION

POLICE officers are being driven to drink and drugs by the stresses of the job, experts warn.

A third are classed as heavy drinkers while at least one a month loses their job due to drug-taking.

The problem is so bad that from this week addicts get free support in a Police Federation partnership with rehab sites Help 4 Addiction and Rehubs.

Officers will be able to join an online rehab programme of video courses.

Help 4 Addiction's founder Nicholas Conn is a former officer who quit in 2009 over a cocaine habit.

This story is from the January 28, 2024 edition of The Sunday Mirror.

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