BREAKING ANONYMITY HARMFUL TO ADDICTS

In response to "Model Campbell admits drug use" (Feb. 12):

You published an Associated Press item on someone having been photographed
leaving a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. The original publisher [The Mirror
of London] behaved badly, but The Observer's repeating the information is
no better.

The point of 12-step program membership is that one can seek help without
being personally identified. If people, even famous people, cannot attend
without fear, then how will they get help?

Chris Hight, Charlotte