HARSH REALITY OF DATE RAPE CONVEYED

Students at AESS got a different form of an educational message last
Thursday (March 30). The message was delivered through a one person
play 'Dissolve', which was about the drug facilitated date rape.

"This is a story that needs to be told. In fact, Dissolve, represents
countless stories that were never told. My vision with Dissolve is
not only to educate my audience on the drugs themselves, but also to
force society to recognize that this is an ongoing problem that
desperately needs to be acknowledged. No one wants to believe that
drug-induced rape happens within their social circle, but as long as
the issue is ignored, victims will continue to wake up frightened,
ashamed, and terribly confused," says Meghan Gardiner, the writer and
performer of the play. The play was put on by the Agassiz RCMP and AESS.

"This is a universal problem. There is a lot of synthetic drugs that
teenagers really don't understand the drug or its impact and the
results can be pretty devastating," says Sergeant Mike McCarthy, with
the Agassiz RCMP.