Ryan Hampton

Ryan Hampton

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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, Ryan has spent more than a decade building impactful nonprofit initiatives and championing systemic change in public health.

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

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

A 2019 Facebook Community Leadership Fellow, Ryan founded Mobilize Recovery, a groundbreaking initiative that has trained over 8,000 advocates in 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, in partnership with nearly 40 major organizations, including Direct Relief International, the Clinton Foundation, and Mobilize Recovery.

A regular contributor to major media outlets, Ryan’s work and commentary have been featured by 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 many others.