While he was lucky enough to find sobriety, other people he knew weren’t so lucky and he in fact lost three close friends to addiction in his first year clean. That’s when he decided to turn back to his first love. After being elected as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in July, 2016, Hampton drove out to Philadelphia, interviewing people whose lives were affected by addiction along the way. It was during that trip (which he documented for HuffPo) that Hampton was invited to meet with the President’s domestic policy advisors to discuss his mission and since then, he’s continued to call attention to the prevalence of addiction. In this episode, we talk about how to handle finding out that your dad has a secret life and why pill addicts turn to heroin, among many other topics.
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