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Mr Jack Freestone

Mr Jack Freestone

Postdoctoral Fellow
Medicine & Health
National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre

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Jack Freestone is an NCCRED post-doctoral research fellow. His research at NCCRED focuses on NCCRED’s Prompt Response Network and Australian approaches to monitoring and responding to emerging drugs of concern.

Prior to commencing with NCCRED, Jack held positions spanning community development, service delivery, program evaluation and research across non-government and government organisations. Jack was previously the manager of drug and alcohol and sexual health programs at ACON, a community organisation specialising in the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ populations in New South Wales.ÌýJack completed his PhD with The Kirby Institute, his PhD research focused on sexualised drug use among sexuality and gender diverse populations and peer-led services for gay and bisexual men who have sex with men.

Jack’s longstanding employment within the community sector, his experience in the delivery of peer-led services has instilled in him an ongoing research interest in lived and living experience representation, research, and service delivery. Jack is also keen to collaborate on and supervise students undertaking research on subjects relevant to sexuality, sexual wellbeing, substance use, emerging and new psychoactive substances. He is enthusiastic about and experienced in qualitative and implementation research.Ìý Ìý

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  • Journal articles | 2024
    Siefried KJ; Bascombe F; Clifford B; Liu Z; Middleton P; Kay-Lambkin F; Freestone J; Herman D; Millard M; Steele M; Acheson L; Moller C; Bath N; Ezard N, 2024, 'Effect of a Smartphone App (S-Check) on Actual and Intended Help-Seeking and Motivation to Change Methamphetamine Use Among Adult Consumers of Methamphetamine in Australia: Randomized Waitlist-Controlled Trial', JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 12,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Freestone J; Ezard N; Bourne A; Brett J; Roberts DM; Hammoud M; Nedanoski A; Prestage G; Siefried KJ, 2023, 'Understandings, attitudes, practices and responses to GHB overdose among GHB consumers', Harm Reduction Journal, 20, pp. 121,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Freestone J; Bourne A; Layard E; Prestage G; Murray J; Siefried KJ, 2022, 'Playing at the edges, navigating sexual boundaries, and narrating sexual distress; Practices and perspectives of sexuality and gender diverse people who use GHB', International Journal of Drug Policy, 108, pp. 103811,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Freestone J; Mooney-Somers J; Hudson S, 2022, 'The sector is ready, and the community needs Australian alcohol and other drug treatment services to ask about sexuality and gender identity', Drug and Alcohol Review, 41, pp. 39 - 42,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Freestone J; Prestage G; Bourne A; Ezard N; Race K; Nedanoski A; Murray J; Siefried KJ, 2022, 'Controlling for pleasure and risk: The experiences of sexuality and gender diverse people who use GHB', International Journal of Drug Policy, 105, pp. 103747,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Freestone J; Siefried KJ; Prestage G; Hammoud M; Molyneux A; Bourne A, 2022, 'Individual level peer interventions for gay and bisexual men who have sex with men between 2000 and 2020: A scoping review', PLoS ONE, 17,
  • Preprints | 2023
    Siefried KJ; Bascombe F; Clifford B; Liu Z; Middleton P; Kay-Lambkin F; Freestone J; Herman D; Millard M; Steele M; Acheson L; Moller C; Bath N; Ezard N, 2023, Effect of a Smartphone App (S-Check) on Actual and Intended Help-Seeking and Motivation to Change Methamphetamine Use Among Adult Consumers of Methamphetamine in Australia: Randomized Waitlist-Controlled Trial (Preprint),
    Conference Abstracts | 2022
    Freestone J; Ezard N; Brett J; Roberts DM; Murray J; Prestage G; Hammoud M; Siefried KJ, 2022, '"Sometimes I have a duty of care not to call 000": Reported practices, attitudes and factors influencing consumer responses to GHB overdose', in DRUG AND ALCOHOL REVIEW, WILEY, Vol. 41, pp. S64 - S64,
    Conference Presentations | 2021
    Freestone J; Siefried KJ; Bourne A; Hammoud M; Prestage G, 2021, 'Peer-led interventions addressing health and wellbeing for gay and bisexual men between 2000 and 2020: A scoping review', presented at Joint Australasian Sexual Health, HIV and AIDS Conferences, Virtual, 06 September 2021 - 09 September 2021