Now back to the summit in Nashville.

Yesterday we introduced you to Robin Parker, one of the Hope ambassadors.

If you are an illicit drug summit that spotlights inspire, bring stories of those in recovery.

Well, tonight we hear Dan Krueger's story.

He's a professional motorcycle athlete whose injuries on the job led him down a path to opioid addiction.

Here's his story of hope from the 2025 summit.

I'm a professional athlete, and so there was a combination of things that led me down that path.

Injury, of course.

I've broken many, many bones in my body, but I also was diagnosed with, psoriatic arthritis when I was 20.

And then when I was 30, I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.

They basically say you have one thing and one thing only to manage this, and that's opioids.

And being a little bit more high profile.

And in my field I had easy access to the opioids.

About three years ago, I was searching online because I really wanted to stop using pain medicine.

And I came across the Moore program.

It was an alternative treatment that used meditation, mindfulness, savoring, reappraisal, and transcendence to reduce the use of opioids, but also to help manage chronic pain.

So I did a lot of research.

Reached out to Doctor Eric Ireland, and nine months later I was completely off of opioids.

And that was almost three years ago.

Athletes at a high level have access to everything, and that's not always a good thing.

You also have a very short career in comparison to other types of professions.

So you also want to be back out there as soon as possible.

I do find that a lot of athletes are similar to myself or were quiet addicts, meaning we still perform at a high level.

Everyone on the outside, sometimes even your family, thinks you're living the perfect life, but internally you're isolated.

Your lonely, you're scared, you're not sure what the next step is.

So it's very challenging to come to terms with it.

I think it's important to share the story because I don't think enough higher profile people admit go public.

Talk about challenges in the days of social media where everything is just snapshots of the perfect situation.

Our business and a lot of athletes business is based on endorsements, and so we want to have a squeaky clean kind of image.

So we're marketable.

I feel like when I am done racing and I retire, my platform is going to slowly slip away.

And so I thought it's almost my responsibility to get the word out and message while I still have a platform, a public platform.

And so I'm hoping that by people like myself sharing this message, more people will come out and share their positive story, the struggles, but also how they got through it.

Doctor Eric Garland, who you heard him mentioned as a pioneer, is a pioneer of the Moore Recovery program, and he was also at the summit.

His goal is to see more addiction recovery programs, use mindfulness in their practice.