U.S. war veteran and 9/11 first responder, Sergeant Justin Minyard, was at the American Legion Underwood-Orr Post 34 Tecumseh on November 13th to share how he found his way out of an opioid addiction fueled by chronic pain.
Sergeant Minyard uses Spinal Cord Stimulation, or SCS, to help manage his chronic pain.
He served in the U.S. Army, where he was an Arabic interrogator for multiple special forces operations and earned two purple hearts and a bronze star for valor.
Sergeant Minyard told his story to WLEN News…
Sergeant Minyard founded a national non-profit aimed at serving injured or disabled veterans… as well as speak on behalf of chronic pain sufferers. He talked about his involvement with WLEN News…
Minyard went on to talk about his life during, and after, his opioid addiction…
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