W. Bryan Hubbard

W. Bryan Hubbard is the Executive Director of the American Ibogaine Initiative which he leads through the REID Foundation. He previously served as the first Chairman and Executive Director of the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission. He was also Special Counsel to the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office of Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control. He was a member of the Kentucky Judicial Commission on Mental Health, the Kentucky Child Support Guidelines Commission, served on the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy’s Recovery Ready Communities Advisory Council as well as the Senate Bill 90 Implementation Council. He previously served as Executive Director of the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office of Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control. He also severed as Commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Income Support wherein he lead the Commonwealth’s Social Security Disability and Child Support Enforcement systems. He is a former commissioner of the Kentucky Mine Safety Review Board. He practiced workers’ compensation law from 2001-2016, representing the world’s largest retailer, third largest meat and poultry producer, and the nation’s largest public utility. During his years of practice, he observed the predacious onset of Kentucky’s Opioid Epidemic within the intersections of chronic joblessness, generational poverty, disability, and substance use. He was raised in Virginia’s coalfields and is the proud grandson of two grade-school educated coal miners.