Dr Nicola Metrebian
Senior Research Fellow
Research Area
Addiction research
Biography
Dr Nicola Metrebian is a Senior Research Fellow in Addictions at King’s College London. She has 20 years in addiction research undertaking large clinical RCTS to assess the effectiveness of pharmacological and behavioural interventions for opiate users. Her research has included evaluating supervised heroin treatment for hard to treat heroin users (RIOTT), assessing the effectiveness of contingency management (positive reinforcement using financial incentives) in encouraging the completion of hepatitis B vaccination and in improving treatment outcomes for opiate users receiving opiate substitution treatment. She is currently researching the use of mobile telephones to deliver behavioural interventions.