{"formatVersion":"1.1","id":"https://mentalhealth-v2.workspace-454808.chatgpt.site/people/ryan-hampton","path":"/people/ryan-hampton","url":"https://mentalhealth-v2.workspace-454808.chatgpt.site/people/ryan-hampton","title":"Ryan Hampton","family":"People profile","description":"Ryan Hampton is a bestselling author and a leading expert in ethical governance, public interest protection, and ethical practices.","language":"en-US","access":{"audience":"custom-shared-preview","indexable":true},"provenance":{"sourceUrl":"https://www.mentalhealth.com/people/ryan-hampton","wordpressId":"3155","contentCompleteness":"complete","dateScope":"original-source"},"authors":[],"dates":{"datePublished":"2024-01-09T20:26:48Z","dateModified":"2026-07-06T15:37:06Z"},"content":{"html":"<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\"><ol><li><a href=\"https://mentalhealth-v2.workspace-454808.chatgpt.site/\">Home</a></li><li><a href=\"https://mentalhealth-v2.workspace-454808.chatgpt.site/people\">People</a></li><li><span aria-current=\"page\">Ryan Hampton</span></li></ol></nav><div class=\"people-profile\" data-default-profile-view=\"contributions\" data-profile-template=\"person\"><header class=\"person-header\"><div class=\"person-overview\"><div class=\"person-identity\"><h1>Ryan Hampton</h1><p class=\"person-role\">Committee Advisor</p></div></div><img alt=\"\" class=\"person-avatar\" height=\"180\" src=\"https://mentalhealth-v2.workspace-454808.chatgpt.site/assets/wordpress/16999.jpeg\" width=\"180\"></header><p class=\"person-summary\">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.</p><nav aria-label=\"Person profile\" class=\"person-nav person-actions\" role=\"tablist\"><a aria-controls=\"about\" aria-selected=\"true\" href=\"https://mentalhealth-v2.workspace-454808.chatgpt.site/people/ryan-hampton#about\" id=\"tab-about\" role=\"tab\">About</a><a aria-controls=\"contributions\" aria-selected=\"false\" href=\"https://mentalhealth-v2.workspace-454808.chatgpt.site/people/ryan-hampton#contributions\" id=\"tab-contributions\" role=\"tab\">Contributions</a></nav><div class=\"person-body\"><div class=\"person-content\"><div class=\"person-main\"><section aria-labelledby=\"tab-about\" class=\"person-panel person-view\" id=\"about\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\"><p>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.</p>\n<p>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.</p>\n<p>Ryan is the bestselling author of <em>American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis and How to End It</em> (2018) and <em>Unsettled</em> (2021), which chronicles his firsthand involvement in the Purdue Pharma opioid litigation and the fight for justice on behalf of affected families.</p>\n<p>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.</p>\n<p>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.</p>\n<p>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 &amp; Friends, The Hill, and the Today Show, among others.</p><section><h2 id=\"education\">Education</h2><p>Marymount University<br>1999 - 2001</p>\n<p>Harvard Kennedy School<br>2020<br>Community Organizing and Leadership</p></section><section class=\"person-regional-communities\" aria-labelledby=\"local-communities\"><h2 id=\"local-communities\">Local Communities</h2><ul><li><a href=\"https://mentalhealth-v2.workspace-454808.chatgpt.site/local/las-vegas-nv\">Las Vegas, NV</a></li></ul></section><section class=\"person-related-communities\" id=\"topic-communities\" aria-labelledby=\"topic-communities-heading\"><h2 id=\"topic-communities-heading\">Topic Communities</h2><div class=\"person-community-links\"><a href=\"https://mentalhealth-v2.workspace-454808.chatgpt.site/community/addiction\">Addiction</a><a href=\"https://mentalhealth-v2.workspace-454808.chatgpt.site/community/recovery\">Recovery</a></div></section><section data-reference-list=\"\" data-reference-style=\"author-date-numbered\" class=\"article-sources\"><h2 id=\"references\">References</h2><ol><li data-reference-number=\"1\" id=\"google-recover-together\"><a aria-label=\"Google Recover Together - open in a new tab\" href=\"https://recovertogether.withgoogle.com/?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=libra&amp;utm_content=external_resource&amp;utm_id=site-people-ryan-hampton&amp;utm_source=mentalhealth.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Google Recover Together</a></li>\n<li data-reference-number=\"2\" id=\"mobilize-recovery\"><a aria-label=\"Mobilize Recovery - open in a new tab\" href=\"https://mobilizerecovery.org/?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=libra&amp;utm_content=external_resource&amp;utm_id=site-people-ryan-hampton&amp;utm_source=mentalhealth.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mobilize Recovery</a></li>\n<li data-reference-number=\"3\" id=\"ryan-hampton\"><a href=\"https://ryanhampton.org/?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=libra&amp;utm_content=external_resource&amp;utm_id=site-people-ryan-hampton&amp;utm_source=mentalhealth.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Hampton</a></li>\n<li data-reference-number=\"4\" id=\"the-voices-project\"><a aria-label=\"The Voices Project - open in a new tab\" href=\"https://www.voicesriseup.org/?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=libra&amp;utm_content=external_resource&amp;utm_id=site-people-ryan-hampton&amp;utm_source=mentalhealth.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Voices Project</a></li></ol></section></section><section aria-labelledby=\"tab-contributions\" class=\"person-panel person-contributions person-view\" id=\"contributions\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"0\"><h2>Contributions</h2><div class=\"person-contribution-list\"><article class=\"person-work-card\" data-contribution-category=\"Perspective\" data-editorial-contribution=\"\"><div class=\"person-post-body\"><a class=\"person-work-preview\" href=\"https://mentalhealth-v2.workspace-454808.chatgpt.site/blog/ryan-hampton-mental-health-parity\"><span class=\"person-work-media\"><img alt=\"Ryan Hampton Testifying Before Congress in Support of Ensuring Access to Quality Sober Living\" height=\"630\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://mentalhealth-v2.workspace-454808.chatgpt.site/assets/wordpress/3581.jpg\" width=\"1200\"><span class=\"person-work-badge\">Authored</span></span><div class=\"person-work-copy\"><h3>Why I Advocate for Mental Health (And You Should, Too)</h3><p>Gain insight into Ryan Hampton's perspective on mental health parity and understand his commitment as a Public Oversight Committee Advisor.</p></div></a></div></article><article class=\"person-work-card\" data-contribution-category=\"Perspective\" data-editorial-contribution=\"\"><div class=\"person-post-body\"><a class=\"person-work-preview\" href=\"https://mentalhealth-v2.workspace-454808.chatgpt.site/blog/medicaid-behavioral-health-crisis\"><span class=\"person-work-media\"><img alt=\"Why Medicaid is Critical for Addressing the Nation’s Behavioral Health Crisis\" height=\"776\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://mentalhealth-v2.workspace-454808.chatgpt.site/assets/wordpress/17008.jpeg\" width=\"1280\"><span class=\"person-work-badge\">Authored</span></span><div class=\"person-work-copy\"><h3>Why Medicaid is Critical for Addressing the Nation's Behavioral Health Crisis</h3><p>Medicaid is the nation's lifeline in the fight against addiction and mental illness. Discover why cutting it would deepen the behavioral health crisis.</p></div></a></div></article></div><button aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"person-secondary person-more\" data-contribution-more=\"\" hidden=\"\" type=\"button\">Show all contributions</button><p class=\"person-contribution-count\" data-contribution-count=\"\" role=\"status\">2 contributions</p></section></div></div></div></div>","text":"Home People Ryan Hampton Ryan Hampton Committee Advisor 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. About Contributions 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. 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. 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. 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. 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