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… [T]hey get dull and they get spurs on the end of them and that’s what causes the big red marks that you see on people a lot, and causes abscesses and stuff… […] And then sometimes like where it’s not sharp enough of a point it won’t puncture the vein, so you would literally have to take it and stab your vein and then you have to hear that pop to know that you’re inside your vein…Several injections used extremely small amounts of water (10–15 units) because of beliefs that using more water reduced the overall dose strength. Due to cost constraints, sterile water was unavailable from the NSP which may have led to the substitution of other fluids, water sharing or using unsafe water sources [ 59 ]. Heating of heroin solution was not uniform, with many reporting that heroin did not require heat to go into solution.…”