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Mobilize Recovery Wins Big at the 2025 Anthem Awards

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Ryan Hampton
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November 23, 2025
Seven awards, including Small Nonprofit of the Year, highlight the power of people, partnerships, and lived experience driving the recovery movement. Mobilize Recovery is honored to announce that we’ve been recognized across seven categories at this year’s Anthem Awards,...

Why Your Recovery Is Your Strongest Boundary

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Ryan Hampton
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November 09, 2025
This time of year always carries a complicated weight, doesn’t it? For those of us in long-term recovery, Thanksgiving isn’t just a calendar date; it’s a moment of profound reflection, high-stakes exposure, and absolute vigilance. We are meant to feel gratitude, but often what...

A Cautious Look at America’s Overdose Crisis

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Ryan Hampton
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October 26, 2025
Earlier this year, a sense of cautious optimism spread through the public health community. In May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced provisional data indicating a significant national decline in overdose deaths during 2024—a drop of nearly 27%. After...

Fueling the Fight as 2025 Comes to a Close

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Ryan Hampton
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October 12, 2025
We’re in the home stretch. As I look at the calendar and realize we are already deep into October 2025, I find myself taking a long, slow exhale. If you’re anything like me, you started this year with a renewed sense of purpose, a list of goals, and a fire in your belly to...

Last Night, We Shined a Light

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Ryan Hampton
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September 28, 2025
I'm still buzzing from last night, a profound mix of exhaustion and exhilarating pride. If you’ve been following my journey, or the incredible work of Mobilize Recovery, you know that saving lives—specifically Narcan distribution—is a cornerstone of our mission. But last night...

Spreading Hope, One Story at a Time

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Ryan Hampton
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September 14, 2025
It’s September. The air is getting a little crisper, the days are growing shorter, and a new school year is in full swing. For many, it's a month of fresh starts and new routines. But for those of us in the recovery community, September holds a special significance: it’s...

Remembering on International Overdose Awareness Day

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Ryan Hampton
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August 31, 2025
The end of August always brings a bittersweet change to the air here in Las Vegas. The brutal heat of summer starts to ease up, and the city seems to take a slow, collective breath. But for me, and for so many others in our community, August 31st carries a different weight, a...

On blanket bans on cellphones in addiction recovery

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Ryan Hampton
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August 17, 2025
The fluorescent lights of the detox unit hummed, a sterile counterpoint to the chaos that had been my life just days before. Every fiber of my being screamed for escape, for the familiar oblivion that had become my twisted comfort. My hands trembled, not from withdrawal alone,...

Understanding Youth Mental Health in a Digital Age

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Ryan Hampton
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August 02, 2025
Are you grappling with the complex relationship between our kids, their screens, and their mental well-being? The conversation often revolves around "screen time" – how many hours are too many? But what if we've been asking the wrong question all along? Recent research is...

We're Coming to a Campus Near You!

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Ryan Hampton
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July 13, 2025
Friends, I'm thrilled to finally announce the next chapter of our movement: the Mobilize Recovery Campus Surge Initiative! For too long, the voices of students in recovery have been silenced, their needs overlooked. We're trying to change that. This fall, we are hitting the road...