On and Off the Wagon

Chastising a reportedly sober Ozzy Osbourne for refusing to denounce his drug dependency because he is a role model ignores the importance of being truthful to an increasingly cynical younger generation (“Just Saying No to Drugs Just Isn’t Ozzy’s Solution,” Pop Eye, Oct. 20).

Dr. Michael Meyers of Brotman Medical Center should know as well as anyone that alcoholics are so named because they love alcohol. Denial also takes place when a divorced man claims that he never loved his ex-wife.

FREDERICK CLEVELAND

Hollywood