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Aid To Inmate Mothers(AIM,Inc.) in Montgomery---Clothing Request
November 10, 2009
Help us…… Help Someone!!!
Aid to Inmate Mothers (AIM)
needs Fall/Winter clothes donations.
AIM is a 501 c 3 non-profit that works to assist families impacted by maternal incarceration. As part of our aftercare services, we strive to provide women leaving prison with clothes.
Items Needed:
Clean Casual Attire
Shoes
(Jeans, Khakis, Capri’s, Sweaters, Jackets, Long Sleeve shirts)
All sizes needed, especially 14+
Please call our office @ 334-262-2245 to arrange a drop-off
We are located in Old Alabama Town, next to the Jubilee City Fest Admin Bldg near Farmer’s Market Café & Tucker Pecan Co.
434 No. McDonough Street
ASK FOR KAREN CARR, RE ENTRY & AFTERCARE COORDINATOR
***or Contact the CPR Website Administrator, Jimmy Lester
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AIM(Aid To Inmate Mothers)
October 22, 2009
Each year, Aid To Inmate Mothers, Inc., strives to provide holiday gifts for children of incarcerated women. They expect to serve 300 children this year and $50 sponsors one child. If you have been seeking an opportunity for this holiday season, please consider this one. Email larnetta@inmatemoms.org for information or phone them at 800/679-0246. |
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Religion and Drug Abuse
May, 04 2009
The relationship between religious practice and the moderate use or avoidance of alcohol is well documented, regardless of whether denominational beliefs prohibit the use of alcohol. According to general studies, the higher the level of religious involvement, the less likely the use or abuse of alcohol.
Persons who abuse alcohol rarely have a strong religious commitment. In their study of the development of alcohol abuse, David Larson and William P. Wilson, professors of psychiatry at Northwestern University School of Medicine, found that nine out of ten alcoholics had lost interest in religion in their teenage years, in sharp contrast to teenagers generally, among whom interest in religion increased by almost 50 percent and declined by only 14 percent. Robert Coombs and his colleagues at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine found that alcohol abuse is 300 percent higher among those who do not attend church.
Drug and alcohol use is lowest in the most conservative religious denominations and highest in non-religious groups, while liberal church groups have use rates just slightly lower than those for non-religious groups. But for all groups, religious commitment correlates with absence of drug abuse.
The parental attitude to religion also is important in dealing with alcohol use. A 1985 study indicated that if the mother and father have deep, competing differences toward religious belief and practice, their children are more likely to use or abuse alcohol than are children whose parents do not differ on matters of religion. Conversely, if their parents' religious beliefs and practices are similar, children are far more likely to abstain from alcohol or to drink with moderation. Almost three decades before these findings, Orville Walters, then a research fellow at the Menninger School of Psychiatry in Topeka, Kansas, found that alcoholics who came from religious backgrounds tended to have mothers who were highly religious but fathers who were more non-religious.
Paralleling the research on alcohol addiction, an early review of studies of drug addiction found a lack of religious commitment to be a predictor of who abuses drugs. Many more recent studies replicate this finding. As in so many other research studies, the best measurement of religious commitment is frequency of church attendance: "Overall church attendance was more strongly related to [less] drug use than was intensity of religious feelings." This is true for both males and females. According to Jerald G. Bachman of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, "Factors we found to be most important in predicting use of marijuana and other drugs during the late 1970's remained most important during the early 1980's. Drug use is below average among those with strong religious commitments." The more powerfully addictive the drug being considered, the more powerful is the impact of church attendance in preventing its use.
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