Alcohol Resources

The information below is provided to help reduce the risk of alcohol-related harms among LAPD personnel and their loved ones. For all medical concerns related to alcohol overuse, please call 911 or visit the closest hospital.

Thinking about your drinking?

Good on you! Too much drinking is harmful, especially for law enforcement professionals. It makes sense to see where you stand.

The following tool checks your drinking and can give advice. If you want to drink less, it can also help you build a plan to make healthier choices.

Check Your Drinking

Law enforcement as a profession tends to embrace values such as courage, strength, emotional control, self-reliance, and independence.

Many of these values help police recruits and new officers develop an ethic of loyalty, solidarity, and support that can benefit them throughout their career. However, overemphasis on or misinterpretation of these values may discourage appropriate help-seeking and encourage avoidant coping behavior. Avoidant coping is managing stress or distress in ways that allow one to disengage from emotion and try to ignore difficulties and challenges. Avoidant coping often leads to problems.

Examples of avoidant coping include:

Do you know the LAPD’s 4 Basic
Alcohol Safety Tactics?
(<3 minutes)

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With all the options to ensure a safe ride home, there's just no excuse to put yourself or others at risk. The following ride share reimbursement programs promote safe driving by providing an alternative to operating a vehicle when there is a possibility of impairment.

Please note that eligibility varies and that BSS only provides these resources for information only. Please contact each for accuracy of program details.

Need a ride home?

LAPPL Smart Ride Program

Through the LAPPL Smart Ride Program, members in good standing can use any licensed transportation service (Taxi, Uber, Lyft, etc.) of their choice for a safe ride home or to a place where they are staying. The LAPPL will reimburse members up to $40 per ride, twice within the same calendar year.

LALEY SafeRide Program

All current active LALEY members in good standing can use any licensed transportation service (Taxi, Uber, etc.) of their choice for a safe ride home or to a place where they are staying. LALEY will reimburse members up to $40 per ride, once within the same calendar year

Behavioral Science Services and its
Alcohol & Substance Abuse Prevention Unit (ASAP).

Consisting of sworn peer support members with specialized training and experience in alcohol and other substance abuse counseling and prevention.

During business hours: Call 213-486-0790

For after-hours urgent (only) needs:
Call LAPD DOC and request the “On-Call Psychologist”

Peer Support Team

Not ready or interested in speaking with a BSS psychologist or ASAP Unit member? That’s OK! Contact a Peer Support Team member (sworn or civilian) at your division or elsewhere in the Department. Talk it out with them and obtain some friendly guidance and support.

COPTAIL Challenge

December 2, 2024 at 1200

A collaboration between LAPD Behavioral Science Services and the Los Angeles Protective League.

WINNER HAS BEEN DETERMINED!

CONGRATULATIONS TO CAPT. ROB PETERS ON HIS NON-ALCOHOLIC “HOLLYWOOD CONFIDENTIAL” DRINK.

Hollywood Confidential
(Makes 2 Servings)

Ingredients:

  • 2 tsp maple syrup

  • 1.5 oz lime juice

  • 2 oz Kentucky 74 bourbon (non-alcoholic)

  • 5 oz ginger beer

  • Mint leaf garnish

    Instructions:

  1. In a mixing glass, combine the maple syrup, lime juice, and Kentucky 74 bourbon.

  2. Add the ginger beer to the mixing glass and fill with ice.

  3. Stir gently until the mixture is well chilled.

  4. Strain the mixture into two glasses filled with ice.

  5. Garnish each glass with a fresh mint leaf.