In a storefront in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighborhood, drug users can find the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users or VANDU, as it's known. Just inside the front door sits a virtual salad ...

But along with the individuals, one organization was named — the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, or VANDU. The grassroots group of hard drug users and former drug users is known for ...

Free and tested heroin, meth and cocaine are distributed at VANDU on International Overdose Awareness Day in Vancouver on Aug. 31, 2021. Photo by Jackie Dives. Arts groups and individual donors ...

Vancouver Coastal Health has operated the site since December, but the peer support group known as VANDU began in 1997 with political activists who wanted drug users to demand health services when ...