Communities are safe, healthy and empowered to manage substance use, including pharmaceuticals and alcohol.
To support cost-effective approaches that maximise community health and safety in relation to drugs.
Frank and fiercely independent, we connect lived experience with research to improve the management of drugs through community engagement and knowledge sharing.
Penington Institute champions an open, rational, and compassionate approach to building and sharing knowledge to reduce drug-related harm.
We push for an effective regulatory framework for cannabis defined by public health goals, with priority placed on targeted prevention, education, and treatment.
Penington Institute produces Australia’s Annual Overdose Report to demonstrate the nature of the overdose crisis and to support change to reduce drug-induced deaths.
At this month’s Victorian Liberal state council, party members will debate a motion to establish a regulated cannabis market for adult use, The Guardian reports. The proposal, put forward by former Liberal staffer turned lobbyist Mark Briers, calls for cannabis to be treated in a similar way to alcohol,
https://youtu.be/nv7ADDvgA_o On Thursday, 28 August, Penington Institute held the 2025 David Penington Oration in honour of our namesake, Professor David Penington AC. The David Penington Oration is an important forum for informed discussion about drug issues that impact every part of our community. We were honoured to continue the legacy
Australia’s overdose crisis continues to claim lives at an alarming rate, with 2,272 people dying from overdoses in the latest year of comprehensive national data. Download report That’s the equivalent of more than six deaths every single day. The latest figures mark the tenth consecutive year that overdose deaths have
At this month’s Victorian Liberal state council, party members will debate a motion to establish a regulated cannabis market for adult use, The Guardian reports. The proposal, put forward by former Liberal staffer turned lobbyist Mark Briers, calls for cannabis to be treated in a similar way to alcohol,
https://youtu.be/nv7ADDvgA_o On Thursday, 28 August, Penington Institute held the 2025 David Penington Oration in honour of our namesake, Professor David Penington AC. The David Penington Oration is an important forum for informed discussion about drug issues that impact every part of our community. We were honoured to continue the legacy
Australia’s overdose crisis continues to claim lives at an alarming rate, with 2,272 people dying from overdoses in the latest year of comprehensive national data. Download report That’s the equivalent of more than six deaths every single day. The latest figures mark the tenth consecutive year that overdose deaths have
Penington Institute convenes the world’s largest annual campaign to end the overdose crisis. International Overdose Awareness Day falls on August 31 each year.
