Soy sauce fish bottles are helping people take drugs responsibly

The forbidden fruit ain’t going anywhere any time soon. The recent spike of drug-related overdoses in the UK have prompted a HIV charity GMFA (Gay Men Fighting Aids) to publish a guide on how to take drugs responsibly. And strangely enough, something you probably throw out once a week might be what prevents your next night out from ending in an overdose.

Specifically a guide on how to take GHB, a popular party and sex drug among Britain’s gay community, it has led to a fifth of those who’ve dabbled with the depressant accidentally overdosing, the Global Drugs Survey revealed. In order to curb this, the men’s health charity released ‘The G Guide’ as part of theirSafer Chems initiative to “reduce the risks from the sex you have while using chems”.

Johann Hari, the author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs said, “In countries that have tried harm reduction schemes, deaths are dramatically lower than countries that have refused to do it”.

The guide emphasises the importance of accurately measuring out the amount of G you take to reduce the chances of causing unconsciousness. One of their recommended measuring tools is something that the majority of the Western population are likely to come across in their lunchtime meal, a fish-shaped plastic soy sauce container complimentary with your sushi rolls. The size of the bottle is recommended to be used to measure 1.5ml of GHB which will fill exactly half of a standard takeaway soy sauce vehicle.

So next time you order some sashimi to-go, keep in mind those aquatic-themed condiment utensils because who knows? One day it might save a life.

Words by Nu Tran