Originally posted by Time Trial
Not by your sponsor. Not for stuff that you did before you tried to get clean.
I mean, they aren't lawyers or doctors, but they are in a position of trust and power and you have to protect the confidentiality of those who are coming to you for help.
For example, as a lawyer, I can't tell the cops if my client has already done something. The only time I am permitted in any fashion to do this is if I am reasonably certain that my client is imminently going to harm someone. And you also have to be reasonably certain of the identity of the person who is going to be hurt.
The reason for protecting the bond of confidentiality is so that people can seek help and that when they seek help they aren't holding back details for fear of reprisal.
A sponsor isn't your priest, nor your attorney. I understand not ratting out addicts for littering, or taking home the company coffee when nobody is looking. But this lady past-tense did something horrible that endangered her kids and being that she could not possibly be proclaimed to be "recovered" from her addiction she presented a present-tense danger to those same kids. The sponsor did the right thing, the moral thing, regardless of any implied confidentiality.
