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.
Victorians are ready for cannabis reform. Penington Institute CEO John Ryan talked to ABC Radio Melbourne to unpack our latest findings. Penington Institute’s recent survey of over 3,700 Victorians found strong community support for safe cannabis regulation – and broad agreement on what that could look like. CEO John Ryan
Penington Institute CEO talks to The Australian about the push to reform outdated driving laws for medicinal cannabis patients. Read the story in The Australian Policy experts are calling for Australian premiers to reform roadside drug testing laws to protect medicinal cannabis patients whose driving is not impaired. Since medicinal
In an article published in the Herald Sun, Penington Institute CEO John Ryan discusses the findings of our recent Victorian survey, which shows widespread support for safe cannabis regulation. Read the Herald Sun story More than 3,700 Victorians have completed Penington Institute’s survey of community views on cannabis policy reform.
Victorians are ready for cannabis reform. Penington Institute CEO John Ryan talked to ABC Radio Melbourne to unpack our latest findings. Penington Institute’s recent survey of over 3,700 Victorians found strong community support for safe cannabis regulation – and broad agreement on what that could look like. CEO John Ryan
Penington Institute CEO talks to The Australian about the push to reform outdated driving laws for medicinal cannabis patients. Read the story in The Australian Policy experts are calling for Australian premiers to reform roadside drug testing laws to protect medicinal cannabis patients whose driving is not impaired. Since medicinal
In an article published in the Herald Sun, Penington Institute CEO John Ryan discusses the findings of our recent Victorian survey, which shows widespread support for safe cannabis regulation. Read the Herald Sun story More than 3,700 Victorians have completed Penington Institute’s survey of community views on cannabis policy reform.
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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