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Ryan Hampton

Committee Advisor

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Ryan Hampton is a national addiction recovery advocate and person in sustained recovery after 10 years of opioid use. He’s worked with leading nonprofits and authored three bestselling books on the overdose crisis.

Ryan Hampton is a nationally recognized advocate, author, speaker, and media commentator working at the intersection of addiction recovery and mental health reform. A former White House staffer during the Clinton administration, he has spent more than a decade building impactful nonprofit initiatives and advancing systemic change in public health.

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In 2016, he contributed to the release of the first-ever U.S. Surgeon General’s report on alcohol, drugs, and mental health, helping elevate addiction as a national public health priority. The following year, Forbes named him one of the top social entrepreneurs driving change in the recovery movement.

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Ryan is the bestselling author of American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis and How to End It (2018) and Unsettled (2021), which chronicles his firsthand involvement in the Purdue Pharma opioid litigation and the fight for justice on behalf of affected families.

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A 2019 Facebook Community Leadership Fellow, Ryan founded Mobilize Recovery, an initiative that has trained more than 8,000 advocates across all 50 states to implement grassroots, community-led solutions to the addiction and overdose crisis.

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He is also the co-founder of the Overdose Response Initiative, a national nonprofit coalition launched in 2019. As of December 2023, the initiative has distributed more than 800,000 free doses of naloxone across 21 states, working in partnership with nearly 40 organizations, including Direct Relief, the Clinton Foundation, and Mobilize Recovery.

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Ryan’s work and commentary have been featured in major media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Associated Press, NPR, MSNBC, ABC News, Vice, Slate, Fox & Friends, The Hill, and the Today Show, among others.

Education

Marymount University
1999 - 2001

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Harvard Kennedy School
2020
Community Organizing and Leadership

Local Communities

References

  1. Google Recover Together. (n.d.). recovertogether.withgoogle.com. Accessed October 10 2026.
  2. Mobilize Recovery. (n.d.). mobilizerecovery.org. Accessed October 10 2026.
  3. Ryan Hampton. (n.d.). ryanhampton.org. Accessed October 10 2026.
  4. The Voices Project. (n.d.). voicesriseup.org.

Contributions

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Ryan is the bestselling author of American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis and How to End It (2018) and Unsettled (2021), which chronicles his firsthand involvement in the Purdue Pharma opioid litigation and the fight for justice on behalf of affected families. A 2019 Facebook Community Leadership Fellow, Ryan founded Mobilize Recovery, an initiative that has trained more than 8,000 advocates across all 50 states to implement grassroots, community-led solutions to the addiction and overdose crisis. He is also the co-founder of the Overdose Response Initiative, a national nonprofit coalition launched in 2019. As of December 2023, the initiative has distributed more than 800,000 free doses of naloxone across 21 states, working in partnership with nearly 40 organizations, including Direct Relief, the Clinton Foundation, and Mobilize Recovery. 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