The American Affiliation of College Ladies has a long-standing purpose of selling fairness and schooling for ladies and ladies and dealing for constructive social change. The native Tehachapi Mountain Department of AAUW, established in 1983, pursues these objectives inside one among its curiosity teams referred to as Huge Choices. This group meets as soon as a month to check supplies developed by the International Coverage Affiliation. A latest theme was “A Century of Wars on Medicine”.
The group watched a video, learn the ready info, and realized that they have been notably inquisitive about studying concerning the issues that unlawful medicine trigger in Tehachapi. Group chief Nancy Williamson invited Detective Mike Adams of the Tehachapi Police Division to share his information and expertise with native medicine.
Adams could be very accustomed to Tehachapi, having graduated from Tehachapi Excessive Faculty and served with the native police division for 10 years. He mentioned that medicine are a multifaceted, harmful and unpredictable downside. The legal guidelines have modified in order that many drug offenses that have been as soon as felonies are actually misdemeanors. This has made surveillance harder. A big proportion of drug addicts have psychological well being issues. The county and metropolis lack the sources to adequately tackle these points.
Medicine have been marketed to enchantment to younger individuals who don’t acknowledge the hazards inherent in creating a drug dependancy. Adams is conscious of the ache, grief and expense this causes dad and mom. Once more, she cited a scarcity of sources, each in funding and personnel, that make it troublesome to alleviate the issues attributable to unlawful medicine.
Membership in AAUW is open to women and men with a level of two years or extra from an accredited establishment. Info may be discovered at tehachapimountain-ca.aauw.web. Name 972-6508 in case you are inquisitive about becoming a member of.
Phyllis Belcher is a member of AAUW.