. From that, PRSL launched a mental health support group, and has seen its numbers grow as more people have needed help amid the stress of the pandemic.
The mental health group allowed PRSL to grow during a time when everything was shut down, and it has since been invited to set up its booth at a variety of shows and festivals. The group does a lot through its booths, including bone marrow drives and providing mental health resources, Narcan and fentanyl test strips. “We want to get more fentanyl test strips into people’s hands,” Rushing says. “If you're using, at least test your stuff and make sure it’s what you think it is.
“Not everything was punk rock,” he says. “I grew up in south Georgia in the 1980s, so we were all about REM. But they are so DIY that I could argue REM is punk rock.”