The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, or VANDU for short, is the Downtown Eastside-based nonprofit activist group that Bud Osborn founded in 1997.
VANDU Quotes in Chasing the Scream
The Chasing the Scream quotes below are all either spoken by VANDU or refer to VANDU. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 14
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“To see people’s faces and how they changed—they saw, I have worth, I have value. I’m able to help somebody else. I’m no longer just what they call me in the newspapers. […] If we’re off demonstrating, we’re having board meetings deciding what to do, and thinking about what our next actions could be, how is so and so doing, how can we help so and so because he got busted again—all that’s taking you away from just being totally fixed on ‘I got to get a drug, I got to get a drug, drug drug drug.’”
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VANDU Term Timeline in Chasing the Scream
The timeline below shows where the term VANDU appears in Chasing the Scream. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 14: The Drug Addicts’ Uprising
...his group formalized their organization, naming it the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (or VANDU). They put a thousand wooden crosses in a public park to represent the thousand people...
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To satisfy VANDU, the city gave Bud Osborn a seat on the board. While the rest of the...
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Vancouver still faced a serious overdose problem, so VANDU got the city to declare its first ever public health emergency. While city leaders knew...
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