Just after we formed Black Cross, maybe our first or second meeting, someone brought up the fact that no one really knew what helped to make people feel better after they'd been pepper sprayed. It became our first of many large and over-ambitious projects-- to do some version of a clinical trial. We wanted to find out, in an evidence-based fashion, what, of the 100's of things that were flying around the rumor mill, worked to make people feel better, and what didn't. Click here to read our OC trial protocols.