By Lori TuckerOriginal Source: wjhl.comKNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – A Tennessee doctor has made it his life’s work-to help people recover from addiction and he knows the struggle all too well.Dr. Stephen Loyd is in recovery after three and a half years of opioid abuse. At his breaking point, he was taking 100 prescription pills a day — proof that anyone can fall into this trap.Dr. Loyd, who is now Medical Director for Tennessee’s Division of Mental Health Services, travels the state seeking to educate people from those who break the law, to those who make the law, using his personal experience as his guide.His own battle with opioids began in 2001 as he was nearing the end of his residency in internal medicine, stressed out about the next step: private practice.“And I was driving home from work one day, ” Dr. Loyd remembers, “Anxiety was up, I felt like I was depressed, and I pulled up to a red light in my hometown of Johnson City and flipped...click here to continue reading