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.
State premiers are being urged to fix outdated road laws that effectively ban medicinal cannabis patients from driving even if they haven’t used cannabis for days. Thousands of medicinal cannabis patients across 6 states and territories could be allowed back behind the wheel if the proposal by drug
A Victorian parliamentary committee has today published a report on the potential decriminalisation of cannabis in Victoria, drawing on the experience of the ACT. Commenting on the Victorian Parliament’s Inquiry into the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Amendment (Regulation of Personal Adult Use of Cannabis) Bill 2023 report,
Download media release Victorian motorists who have medical cannabis in their system but are not impaired by the drug will no longer face automatic driving bans from Saturday 1 March 2025. John Ryan, CEO of drug policy nonprofit Penington Institute, says the rule change means Victorian medical cannabis patients will
State premiers are being urged to fix outdated road laws that effectively ban medicinal cannabis patients from driving even if they haven’t used cannabis for days. Thousands of medicinal cannabis patients across 6 states and territories could be allowed back behind the wheel if the proposal by drug
A Victorian parliamentary committee has today published a report on the potential decriminalisation of cannabis in Victoria, drawing on the experience of the ACT. Commenting on the Victorian Parliament’s Inquiry into the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Amendment (Regulation of Personal Adult Use of Cannabis) Bill 2023 report,
Download media release Victorian motorists who have medical cannabis in their system but are not impaired by the drug will no longer face automatic driving bans from Saturday 1 March 2025. John Ryan, CEO of drug policy nonprofit Penington Institute, says the rule change means Victorian medical cannabis patients will
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.
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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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