SUDU DRAWS CROWD AT SURREY PRIDE 2025

Surrey, BC - Members of the Surrey Union of Drug Users were privileged to table at Surrey Pride 2025 on June 28th. Alongside Fraser Health, the Health Initiative for Men, and other organizations committed to advancing harm reduction-informed drug policy in the region. We are proud to have trained over 70 attendees in the use of naloxone and overdose response. In total, more than 50 naloxone kits were distributed to community members attending Surrey Pride. Once the trainings started, they did not stop!

LGBTQ2SIA+ people who use drugs experience intersecting forms of social, legal, and health inequities that include specific forms of violence related to the war on drugs. As BC and other jurisidictions throughout so-called Canada roll back their tenuous commitment to sanitized half measures referred to as harm reduction, we remember our movement’s roots in the liberatory and abolitionist survival of queer and trans people who used drugs, sex workers, and their allies. SUDU stands in solidarity with movements for queer liberation and will always recognize the inseparable nature.