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.
Download presentation slides Join us to learn more about some of the novel benzodiazepines emerging in Australia, and how frontline workers can be better prepared to respond. In recent years, novel benzodiazepines (or ‘fake’ or ‘street benzos’) have become increasingly prevalent in unregulated drug markets in Australia and overseas. Often
Download media release In short: Penington Institute is inviting Victorians to ‘Take the Cannabis Test,’ a five-question online quiz to find out your stance on safe cannabis regulation. Public opinion polls already demonstrate widespread support for cannabis regulation, with 54% of Victorians in favour. Penington Institute’s proposed approach to safe
Penington Institute CEO John Ryan talks to 9 News about the changing attitudes towards both medicinal and personal use cannabis in Australia – and why it’s time for safe cannabis regulation. Australia’s medicinal cannabis market is surging, and data revealed in our new Cannabis in Australia 2024 report makes an
Download presentation slides Join us to learn more about some of the novel benzodiazepines emerging in Australia, and how frontline workers can be better prepared to respond. In recent years, novel benzodiazepines (or ‘fake’ or ‘street benzos’) have become increasingly prevalent in unregulated drug markets in Australia and overseas. Often
Download media release In short: Penington Institute is inviting Victorians to ‘Take the Cannabis Test,’ a five-question online quiz to find out your stance on safe cannabis regulation. Public opinion polls already demonstrate widespread support for cannabis regulation, with 54% of Victorians in favour. Penington Institute’s proposed approach to safe
Penington Institute CEO John Ryan talks to 9 News about the changing attitudes towards both medicinal and personal use cannabis in Australia – and why it’s time for safe cannabis regulation. Australia’s medicinal cannabis market is surging, and data revealed in our new Cannabis in Australia 2024 report makes an
Penington Institute convenes the world’s largest annual campaign to end the overdose crisis. International Overdose Awareness Day falls on August 31 each year.
Penington Institute offers several regular e-newsletters, publications and online forums to help keep you up to date.
Every dollar you donate supports our work to improve community
health and safety related to alcohol and other drugs.
Every dollar you donate supports our work to improve community health and safety related to alcohol and other drugs.
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