Jessica Hulsey
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Jessica Hulsey

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Jessica is a national expert with more than 25 years in the field and has worked with America's top scientists to translate the science of addiction into digestible information for patients, families, and other key audiences. She is also the founder of the Addiction Policy Forum. ​ She has hosted forums and drug policy events with Presidents, spoken at the Presidents' Summit for America's Future with former presidents, and was profiled in a book by Governor John Kasich (R-Ohio) called "Courage Is Contagious: Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the Face of America". Jessica has been featured in a Lifetime Network series, Discovery Health Channel profile, Cosmopolitan, LA Times, NY Times, MSNBC, and USA Today. She has also testified before the House Ways and Means Committee and The President's Commission on the Opioid Crisis, as well as the U.S. Senate's Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce. Jessica's career focusing on addiction is deeply personal. Both her parents struggled with heroin addiction, which led to homelessness, foster care, and eventually her mother's incarceration, after which she was raised by her grandparents. She is a first-generation college graduate with a degree from Princeton University.
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