Booze And The Badge - A Cop's Battle With The Bottle Author: Barry Ruhl My MEMOIR is an examination of my lifelong battle with alcoholism, how it affected my lengthy policing career, and my efforts to help others battle addiction once I was in recovery and had retired from policing. Along the way, this manuscript details [...]

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