Why not put less in a sachet?

Our objective in determining the fill of the sachets was to create a single use sachet that contained enough acid for an injection, so that services could reasonably supply one sachet per syringe/injection.

We opted for 100mg because it is not uncommon for heroin users to dissolve 500mg or a gram of heroin for injection - people using large amounts may need a whole sachet.

In the video we only used 130mg of heroin, because this is a frequently used dose and we didn't want to normalise or promote the use of large doses or make users feel it didn't apply to them because they never use that much.

It is also important to understand that the video didn't show crack cocaine injecting or speedball injecting, but both of these are common practices and would require two or three times more acid than was required in the experiment we did in the video.

We aren't able to 'force' people to use less acid: if we made the sachets smaller, and they wanted to continue adding acid they would just use other acids - lemon juice, vinegar, kettle descaler etc. so the only way to reduce acid use is through education. Hence this 'mass distribution' video project - we supply as many free dvds as people want with our citric.

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Finally there are practical reasons too - there will always be some powder left on the inside of a sachet after emptying which would make getting the powder into the spoon without scraping it off the sides of the sachet difficult if we only put in 20 or 30mg, and it is also the case that putting very small amounts of powder into a sachet is difficult with fill weights of well under 100mg, there would be a risk of sachets that were either empty, or perceived to be empty.

Education is the answer: hence this 'mass distribution' video project: agencies ordering our citric sachets can have enough free copies (on VHS and DVD) to distribute one to every injector they see. Simply use the order form to place an order for the number of videos you require when you next order!