Ryan Hampton

Ryan Hampton is a leading advocate, speaker, author, and media commentator on addiction recovery and mental health reform. A former White House staffer during the Clinton administration, he has worked with numerous nonprofits and recovery initiatives.

In 2016, he played a key role in the release of the first U.S. Surgeon General's report on alcohol, drugs, and mental health. The following year, Forbes recognized him as a top social entrepreneur in the recovery movement.

Ryan is the author of the bestseller American Fix — Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis and How to End It (2018) and Unsettled (2021), which chronicles his involvement in the Purdue Pharma opioid settlement litigation.

A 2019 Facebook Community Leadership Fellow, he launched Mobilize Recovery, a nationwide initiative that has trained over 8,000 advocates across all 50 states to implement community-based solutions for the addiction and overdose crisis.

Through the Overdose Response Initiative, a nonprofit coalition he co-founded in 2019, over 800,000 free naloxone doses have been distributed across 21 states as of December 2023. The coalition includes nearly 40 national organizations, including Direct Relief International, the Clinton Foundation, and Mobilize Recovery.

Ryan is a contributor to major media outlets and has been featured on the Today Show, Associated Press, USA Today, MSNBC, ABC News, Fox & Friends, The New York Times, NPR, HLN, Vice, Slate, The Hill, The Wall Street Journal, and more.

Education

Marymount University
1999 - 2001

Harvard Kennedy School
2020
Community Organizing and Leadership

References

Google Recover Together

Mobilize Recovery

Ryan Hampton

The Voices Project

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