IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Our Vision

Freedom from serious drug harms.

Our Mission

To help people and institutions, regardless of their status or beliefs, to minimise serious harms from legal and illicit drugs.

Our Role

Penington Institute champions an open, rational, and compassionate approach to building and sharing knowledge to reduce drug-related harm.

Cannabis regulation

We push for an effective regulatory framework for cannabis defined by public health goals, with priority placed on targeted prevention, education, and treatment.

Overdose prevention

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.

Our Impact

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NSW government misses key opportunity on cannabis reform

Penington Institute – Australia’s leading independent drug policy research non-profit – believes the NSW Government has missed an important opportunity to show national leadership on evidence-based cannabis reform.  In its newly published response to the Impact of the regulatory framework for cannabis in New South Wales Parliamentary Inquiry’s final report,

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Media release text overlay on cannabis

NSW government misses key opportunity on cannabis reform

Penington Institute – Australia’s leading independent drug policy research non-profit – believes the NSW Government has missed an important opportunity to show national leadership on evidence-based cannabis reform.  In its newly published response to the Impact of the regulatory framework for cannabis in New South Wales Parliamentary Inquiry’s final report,

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International Overdose Awareness Day

Penington Institute convenes the world’s largest annual campaign to end the overdose crisis. International Overdose Awareness Day falls on August 31 each year.