Dr Tony Barnett
ARC DECRA Research Fellow
School of Psychology
+61 7 334 69643
Researcher biography
Tony Barnett is an ARC DECRA Fellow in the School of Psychology, and an affiliate of the National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, University of Queensland. Tony's work explores the social and cultural contexts of alcohol and other drug use, treatment (including novel therapeutic interventions) and policy change. His work draws on critical social science methods to provide in-depth accounts of consumers, carers and clinicians' experiences of addiction treatment, care and recovery. His current work applies a critical lens to the social and policy dimensions of psychedelic therapies for the treatment of addiction: he is particularly keen to supervise student projects in this area.
In 2020, Tony completed his PhD thesis at Monash University. His work explored clinicians' views about the brain disease model of addiction and how neuroscientific models and interventions integrate within clinical practice. His research interests include: Qualitative research; Harm reduction; Opioid addiction; Treatment policy, evaluation and outcome monitoring.
Book Chapters
Barnett, Anthony, Savic, Michael, Pickersgill, Martyn, O’Brien, Kerry, Lubman, Dan I. and Carter, Adrian (2022). Addiction Treatment Providers' Engagements with the Brain Disease Model of Addiction. Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction. (pp. 283-294) London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003032762-30
Barnett, Anthony, Hall, Wayne and Carter, Adrian (2020). Disease, wellness, and addiction: a global perspective. Global mental health and neuroethics. (pp. 211-224) edited by Dan J. Stein and Ilina Singh. London, United Kingdom: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-815063-4.00013-7
Journal Articles
Pocuca, Nina, Dakin, Brodie C., Puljevic, Cheneal, Francis, Cameron, Stjepanovic, Daniel, Barnett, Anthony and Hides, Leanne (2025). Understanding Drug and Alcohol Staff Perspectives on the Barriers and Facilitators to Drug Checking: A Qualitative Study. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44 (5), 1330-1338. doi: 10.1111/dar.14073
Pocuca, Nina, Campbell, Gabrielle, Barnett, Anthony, Beck, Alison K., Ellem, Rhiannon, Quinn, Catherine A., Kelly, Peter J., Larance, Briony, Baker, Amanda L., Connor, Jason P., Marsden, John, Chan, Gary C. K., Connelly, Luke, Lenzen, Sabrina, Farrell, Michael, Stirling, Robert, Hudson, Suzie and Hides, Leanne (2025). A mixed‐methods study of staff perspectives on the barriers and facilitators to the implementation of patient‐reported routine outcome measures and feedback in alcohol and other drug treatment. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44 (3), 759-771. doi: 10.1111/dar.14007
Cheetham, Ali, Lubman, Dan I., Lam, Tina, Grist, Elizabeth, Barnett, Anthony, Arunogiri, Shalini and Nielsen, Suzanne (2025). Complex trauma and perceived barriers to treatment among people accessing a supervised injecting facility El trauma complejo y las barreras percibidas para el tratamiento entre las personas que acceden a un centro de inyección supervisada. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 16 (1) 2558241, 2558241. doi: 10.1080/20008066.2025.2558241
Rubenis, Adam J., Barnett, Anthony I. and Arunogiri, Shalini (2024). Keeping clients connected: exploring Australian alcohol and other drug clinicians’ perspectives on barriers and facilitators to treatment attendance. Addiction Research and Theory, 32 (2), 120-128. doi: 10.1080/16066359.2023.2227092
Peart, Annette, Horn, Freya, Petukhova, Rachel, Barnett, Anthony and Lubman, Dan I. (2024). Web-based forums for people experiencing substance use or gambling disorders: scoping review. JMIR Mental Health, 11 e49010, e49010-11. doi: 10.2196/49010
Barnett, Anthony, Pienaar, Kiran, Lubman, Dan I., Arunogiri, Shalini, Phan, Vicky, Hayes, Vicky, Lintzeris, Nicholas and Savic, Michael (2024). The dynamics of more-than-human care in depot buprenorphine treatment: a new materialist analysis of Australian patients’ experiences. International Journal of Drug Policy, 127 104399, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104399
Woolley, Jaimie, Savic, Michael, Garfield, Joshua B. B., Petukhova, Rachel, Manning, Victoria, Lubman, Dan I. and Barnett, Anthony (2024). Experiences of telehealth among people receiving alcohol and other drug treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic: Implications for future telehealth delivery. Drug and Alcohol Review, 43 (3), 694-704. doi: 10.1111/dar.13797
Savic, Michael, Barnett, Anthony, Pienaar, Kiran, Carter, Adrian, Warren, Narelle, Sandral, Emma, Manning, Victoria and Lubman, Dan I. (2023). Staying with the silence: silence as affording care in online alcohol and other drug counselling. International Journal of Drug Policy, 116 104030, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104030
Bolt, G. L., Piercy, H., Barnett, A. and Manning, V. (2022). ‘A circuit breaker’ – Interrupting the alcohol autopilot: a qualitative exploration of participants’ experiences of a personalised mHealth approach bias modification intervention for alcohol use. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 16 100471, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.abrep.2022.100471
Barnett, Anthony, Savic, Michael, Forbes, David, Best, David, Sandral, Emma, Bathish, Ramez, Cheetham, Alison and Lubman, Dan I. (2022). Transitioning to civilian life: the importance of social group engagement and identity among Australian Defence Force veterans. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 56 (8), 1025-1033. doi: 10.1177/00048674211046894
Dunn, Matthew, Barnett, Anthony and McKay, Fiona H (2022). Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in Australia: are there challenges facing sexual health promotion?. Health Promotion International, 37 (2) daab177, 1-10. doi: 10.1093/heapro/daab177
Cheetham, Ali, Picco, Louisa, Barnett, Anthony, Lubman, Dan I. and Nielsen, Suzanne (2022). The impact of stigma on people with opioid use disorder, opioid treatment, and policy. Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation, Volume 13. doi: 10.2147/sar.s304566
Barnett, Anthony, Savic, Michael, Lintzeris, Nicholas, Bathish, Ramez, Arunogiri, Shalini, Dunlop, Adrian J., Haber, Paul, Graham, Robert, Hayes, Vicky and Lubman, Dan I. (2021). Tracing the affordances of long-acting injectable depot buprenorphine: a qualitative study of patients’ experiences in Australia. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 227 108959, 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108959
Barnett, Anthony, Savic, Michael, Pienaar, Kiran, Carter, Adrian, Warren, Narelle, Sandral, Emma, Manning, Victoria and Lubman, Dan I. (2021). Enacting ‘more-than-human’ care: Clients’ and counsellors’ views on the multiple affordances of chatbots in alcohol and other drug counselling. International Journal of Drug Policy, 94 102910, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102910
Barnett, Anthony, O'Brien, Kerry, Hall, Wayne and Carter, Adrian (2020). Support for the psychosocial, disease and brain disease models of addiction: A survey of treatment providers' attitudes in Australia, the UK, and U.S. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 115 108033, 108033. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2020.108033
Barnett, Anthony I., Pickersgill, Martyn, Dilkes-Frayne, Ella and Carter, Adrian (2020). Neural imaginaries at work: Exploring Australian addiction treatment providers’ selective representations of the brain in clinical practice. Social Science and Medicine, 255 112977, 112977. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112977
Barnett, Anthony, Hall, Wayne, Fry, Craig L., Dilkes-Frayne, Ella and Carter, Adrian (2018). Implications of treatment providers' varying conceptions of the disease model of addiction: a response. Drug and Alcohol Review, 37 (6), 729-730. doi: 10.1111/dar.12844
Barnett, Anthony, Dilkes-Frayne, Ella, Savic, Michael and Carter, Adrian (2018). When the brain leaves the scanner and enters the clinic: the role of neuroscientific discourses in producing the problem of “addiction”. Contemporary Drug Problems, 45 (3), 009145091877491-243. doi: 10.1177/0091450918774918
Barnett, Anthony I, Hall, Wayne, Fry, Craig L, Dilkes-Frayne, Ella and Carter, Adrian (2017). Drug and alcohol treatment providers' views about the disease model of addiction and its impact on clinical practice: A systematic review. Drug and Alcohol Review, 37 (6), 697-720. doi: 10.1111/dar.12632
Cullen, A. J., Barnett, A., Komesaroff, P. A., Brown, W., O'Brien, K. S., Hall, W. and Carter, A. (2017). A qualitative study of overweight and obese Australians’ views of food addiction. Appetite, 115, 62-70. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2017.02.013
Barnett, Anthony I., Hall, Wayne and Carter, Adrian (2017). Substance use terminology. JAMA-Journal of the American Medical Association, 317 (7), 769-770. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.20475
Hall, Wayne, Carter, Adrian and Barnett, Anthony (2017). Disease or developmental disorder: competing perspectives on the neuroscience of addiction. Neuroethics, 10 (1), 1-8. doi: 10.1007/s12152-017-9303-1
Barnett, Anthony I. and Fry, Craig L. (2015). The clinical impact of the brain disease model of alcohol and drug addiction: exploring the attitudes of community-based AOD clinicians in Australia. Neuroethics, 8 (3), 271-282. doi: 10.1007/s12152-015-9236-5
Barnett, Anthony, Hall, Wayne and Carter, Adrian (2015). An ethical reevaluation: where are the voices of those with anorexia nervosa and their families?. AJOB Neuroscience, 6 (4), 73-74. doi: 10.1080/21507740.2015.1094545