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Annual Review 2023

20 Feb 2024

We were also delighted to successful impact from the year 2023, and see real progress towards some of the extend my heartfelt thanks to our team, key recommendations of our Opioid our partners, and the communities we pharmacotherapy at the crossroads: enduring work with for another year of tremendous Kathryn Greiner AO barriers and new opportunities report. [...] Overdose Report 2023 and Achieving outstanding growth Opioid pharmacotherapy at the in media coverage of our crossroads: enduring barriers work and boosting our brand Central to our mission is the critical and new opportunities awareness – with more than work of improving Australia’s 2,400 mentions of Penington management of drugs through trusted Institute in the media, representing an increase of. [...] A Courageous Legacy: the inaugural David Penington Oration OUR NAMESAKE AND Former Australian Federal Police PATRON, THE LATE Commissioner Mick Palmer AO APM PROFESSOR DAVID gave a powerful oration on the failure of cannabis criminalisation in Australia and PENINGTON AC, WAS a leader’s vision of a pathway forward, A TRUE CHAMPION OF which was shared more broadly through THE NEED TO RETHINK media c. [...] of the medicinal cannabis sector while identifying persisting obstacles It is one of many ways in which we to accessibility; worked in 2023 to champion the need for balanced and urgent change, helping more • Provided supplementary evidence Australians better understand both the highlighting the advantages deficiencies of the current system and the associated with cannabis law real opportunities to. [...] These events included • Produced a submission in January We make our case to policymakers in the #ACannabis Conference, the NSW HIV 2023 to the Joint Committee on Law various ways, and in 2023 our team and Related Programs (HARP) Forum, the Enforcement’s Inquiry into Australia’s prepared rigorous responses to relevant United in Compassion 2023: Australian illicit drug problem: Challenges and State.
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