Ryan Hampton
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Don’t Call Me An Addict
Ryan Hampton believes that the way we talk about addiction can determine whether someone gets the help they need, or die. Shame and discrimination are still deeply rooted in our culture when it comes to addiction and you don’t have to look much further than the language we use to see it.
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An Insider from the Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Speaks Out | The ...
Sep 20, 2021 ... One day last spring, Ryan Hampton had a secret meeting with David Sackler, whose family's company, Purdue Pharma, stood accused of helping to precipitate ...
Opinion | The Sacklers Are Walking Off Into the Sunset. Reform the ...
Sep 11, 2021 ... By Ryan Hampton. Mr. Hampton was a co-chair of the Official Unsecured Creditors Committee in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy. On Sept. 26, 2019, the Department ...
Stone Village Television to Adapt Ryan Hampton's 'Unsettled' for ...
Oct 6, 2021 ... Scott Steindorff and Dylan Russell's Stone Village Television has acquired the TV rights to Ryan Hampton's upcoming book 'Unsettled.'
Books by Ryan Hampton
“Fentanyl Nation: Toxic Politics and America's Failed War on Drugs” (2024)
A passionate call to abandon ineffective drug-war policies, reframe addiction as a public health issue, and end the Fentanyl crisis. The American overdose crisis has reached record-breaking heights; preventable overdoses are now responsible for more annual deaths than traffic accidents, suicide, or gun violence. Fentanyl―a potent, inexpensive, and easy-to-manufacture synthetic opioid―has thoroughly contaminated the drug supply, and while it frequently makes front page news across the country, it remains poorly understood by policymakers and the public. Why, despite all of our efforts to raise awareness and billions of dollars of investments, does this emergency keep getting worse? In Fentanyl Nation, recovery advocate Ryan Hampton separates the facts from the fiction surrounding Fentanyl, and shows how overdose deaths are ultimately policy failures. Instead of investing in education, harm reduction, effective treatment, and recovery, we have doubled down on more police, more incarceration, and harsher penalties for those caught in the grip of addiction. Yet history has shown time and time again that it is impossible to arrest our way out of a public health crisis; the government used the same strategy to fight the crack-cocaine epidemic of the 80s and 90s, and it only resulted in racially disparate policing and the destruction of marginalized communities. This urgent and informative manifesto reveals how prejudice, discrimination, and stigma have been codified into our drug laws, and calls for a compassionate and evidence-based approach that would address the core causes of addiction and save countless lives. We can end this crisis, but only if we get out of our own way.
“Unsettled: How the Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Failed the Victims of the American Overdose Crisis” (2021)
Unsettled: How the Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Failed the Victims of the American Overdose Crisis
“American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis - and How to End It” (2018)
Nearly every American knows someone who has been affected by the opioid crisis. Addiction is a trans-partisan issue that impacts individuals from every walk of life. Millions of Americans, tired of watching their loved ones die while politicians ignore this issue. Where is the solution? Where is the hope? Where's the outrage?Ryan Hampton is a young man who has made addiction and recovery reform his life's mission. Through the wildly successful non-profit organization Facing Addiction, Hampton has been rocketed to the center of America’s rising recovery movement―quickly emerging as the de facto leader of the national conversation on addiction. He understands firsthand how easy it is to develop a dependency on opioids, and how destructive it can quickly become. Now, he is waging a permanent campaign to change our way of thinking about and addressing addiction in this country.In American Fix, Hampton describes his personal struggle with addiction, outlines the challenges that the recovery movement currently faces, and offers a concrete, comprehensive plan of action towards making America’s addiction crisis a thing of the past.
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