The drama continues within the Police Department. The characters remain to be played by new actors. The sets remain the same. Certain Police Precincts are still used as dumping grounds, like the one I was assigned to right out of the Police Academy some 40 years ago. Every so often a cop takes his life using his service or off-duty revolver. As stated in a recent NEW YORK TIMES editorial... "Nearly half (of the 8 officers who committed suicide in 1993) had alcohol in their systems, but all that proves is that they had a few drinks before they died - perhaps to stiffen their nerve." The Voice went on to state... "The 20,000-member union is so dominant and so brazen it can hold the city hostage if it sees fit, as it did last year (1992) when a PBA rally turned into a drunken riot, with thousands of police officers storming the steps of City Hall and blocking traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge." The Department still has not addressed the problems of alcohol and drugs and how they impact on the cop, the family, the job and the City. In the 13 years since the R.H.R. study on stress little has changed. Cops are still committing suicide, still abusing alcohol, and still taking drugs. The entry ritual remains the same as Officer Dowd testified on t.v. at the Mollen Commission Hearings early this fall. Dowd testified that in order to see if the cop was the right kind of cop to join his gang of Drug Thieves he would ask him to have a drink of alcohol with him while on duty in uniform. So, as I stated early on in this thesis, the warning is still given to the Rookie, "Never trust a cop who doesn't drink." I owe a special thanks to Glenn P. Garamella, Director of the Employee Assistance Section; Dr. Marjorie McMannomon of Psych Services Research; P.O. Terri Kavanaugh, Psych Services; Lieutenant Christopher Sullivan, Chief of Personnel Bureau; Detective Jordan of the Counseling Unit and Lieutenant Jackie McCarthy, Director of the Counseling Service. Also, my wife Doris, who is deceased; my companion, Judith C. Berk; my daughter, Dr. Joan E. Dominick, Ed.D., Kennesaw College, Ga.; my son-in- law, Dr. Joseph Dominick, Ph.D., UGA; my son, Joseph G. Leichter, a Teaching Fellow at Brown University, Providence, RI; Msgr. Joseph A. Dunne (retired); Lieutenant James F. Devine (retired); Dr. Arthur Beaman (retired); Chief Surgeon Stephen McCoy, M.D.; Dr. Robert Gittler, M.D.; and last, but not least, Dr. Stanley Schiff, Ph.D.