Fundraising

Your fundraising will support people who are isolated, may have a mental health condition with a dependency to prescription drugs.

Over 3.9 million people in England alone have a dependence to benzodiazepines and other similar prescribed drugs, cited by PHE report in 2019, these figures will have increased since the pandemic, PostScript360 service delivery rose by 170% in 2020. Benzodiazepine dependence is second to alcohol in terms of the number of people who have a dependency.

Drug agencies do not understand prescription drug dependency; some mental health services exclude people if their problem is seen to be part of drug misuse. Many people end up in a revolving door scenario with multiple A&E visits and more mental health crisis hospital admissions.

We need your support to reach our community, educate health professionals, to support people right now, have a fast-track solution to limit the damage of prescription dependence, to do this we need support in scaling up our staff capacity and in our communications and our technology. Our charity aims to be more sustainable in the future, enabling us to plough the income back in to supporting those who are most vulnerable in our community and eventually for the charity to be less reliant on funders. Until then, we urgently need the support of our friends for support.