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Surrey Union of Drug Users
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The Surrey Union of Drug Users (SUDU) is a peer-governed organization of people with current or former experience of criminalized substance use. Join us in our fight to end the stigma and discrimination against drug users in Surrey, BC | 💊💉✊❤️

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Addiction Practice Pod
Medicine Podcast · 4 Seasons
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March 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
In this episode, Robin recounts her experiences of being pushed away from care as a South Asian woman who uses drugs. Anmol adds historical context, connecting Robin's experiences, drug war colonialism, and recent crackdowns on traditional medicines which harmed South Asian elders in Surrey.
March 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
South Asian people who used drugs are systematically underserved and oppressed by drug war violence in Surrey and throughout so-called Canada.

In Newton, where 60% of the population self identifies as South Asian, there are no OPS’ and a single Take Home Naloxone site.
March 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The BCNDPs reckless scapegoating of drug users, most recently by ending carries for prescribed safe supply recipients in response to police-dictated moral panic, will kill even more of us.

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'Moral panic': Surrey drug advocate says B.C. safe supply shift will cost lives
Surrey Union of Drug Users says B.C. Ministry of Health decision is going the wrong direction
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February 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM