Anonymity Statement

The basic premise of anonymity allows addicts to attend meetings without fear of 
legal or social repercussions.  This is an important consideration for an addict 
thinking about going to his first meeting.  Anonymity also supports an 
atmosphere of equality in meetings.  It helps insure that no individual's 
personality or circumstance will be considered more important than the message 
of recovery shared in NA.  

We ask your help in maintaining our tradition of personal anonymity by not 
identifying our members by name or in full face photos as members of Narcotics 
Anonymous, or by describing details of their personal circumstances which could 
reveal their identities.  

In carrying our message of recovery, we welcome articles about our fellowship, 
but not in terms of personalities.  We are not secret, just anonymous.  
Cooperation by the press has been very good, and we hope that continued exposure 
given to the Narcotics Anonymous program will play a major role in attracting 
the many thousands of addicts who need help.  We thank you for your 
understanding.  

Attach:  Twelve Traditions of Narcotics Anonymous

We keep what we have only with vigilance, and just as freedom for the individual 
comes from the Twelve Steps, so freedom for the group springs from our 
traditions.  As long as the ties that bind us together are stronger than those 
that would tear us apart, all will be well.

1.	Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends on NA 
unity.

2.	For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority--a loving God as 
He may express Himself in our group conscience.  Our leaders are but trusted 
servants, they do not govern.

3.	The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using.

4.	Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups 
or NA as a whole.

5.	Each group has but one primary purpose--to carry the message to the addict 
who still suffers.

6.	An NA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the NA name to any 
related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems or money, property and 
prestige divert us from our primary purpose.

7.	Every NA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside 
contributions.

8.	Narcotics Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our 
service centers may employ special workers.

9.	NA as such, ought never be organized, but we may create service boards or 
committees directly responsible to those they serve.

10.	Narcotics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues,; hence the NA name 
ought never be drawn into public controversy.

11.	Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; 
we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and 
films.

12.	Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever 
reminding us to place principles before personalities.