Dr Reehan Sabri

Dr Reehan Sabri is a senior Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist with nearly two decades of experience on the GMC Specialist Register, holding Certificates of Completion of Training in both Substance Misuse Psychiatry and General Adult Psychiatry. He trained at St George’s, University of London, where he completed his Higher Specialist Training under Professor Colin Drummond, working across the South London Community Alcohol Team and regional inpatient detoxification services, as well as community drug and alcohol services in Surrey and Sussex. 

He currently works as Regional Lead Consultant for substance misuse services with Change Grow Live (CGL), one of Europe’s largest addiction treatment providers, covering Yorkshire and the North East of England. In his regional leadership role, he provides clinical oversight to consultants and non-medical prescribers, sits on CGL’s National Central Policy Committee, contributes to the National Committee of Regional Lead Consultants, and also acts as a national medical appraiser.

Clinically, he works across the full spectrum of addiction psychiatry, including alcohol and opioid dependence, stimulant use disorders, alcohol-related brain injury, and dual diagnosis presentations involving co-occurring mood, anxiety, or psychotic disorders. He has experience in medically supported detoxification, relapse prevention, and integrating addiction treatment with wider mental health care, including prescribing methadone, buprenorphine, and Buvidal depot formulations. His recent continuing professional development includes training in pharmacological management of adult ADHD. 

Alongside his UK practice, Dr Sabri has held consultant posts internationally at the National University Hospital in Singapore and RIPAS Hospital in Brunei Darussalam, as well as academic roles including Clinical Associate Professor at Newcastle University’s Malaysia campus and Assistant Professor in Medical Education at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences in Riyadh. He has authored and co-authored peer-reviewed publications in areas including alcohol pharmacotherapy, cross-cultural psychiatry, and unusual clinical presentations, and is also the author of a 2011 publication with Lambert Academic Publishing.