TYLER SPIVEY

By David Kronke Tribune-Star

Many who are honored by being named to the 12

Under 40 list have had their eyes squarely on their prize for years. Obstacles along the way are usually minor road bumps to success.

Tyler Spivey’s path to his accomplishments was much thornier, however.

“My recovery brought me here,” said the sixyear Terre Haute resident. “I am a person in long-term recovery from opioid use.” Spivey went through the Next Step sober-living program — which he now oversees — in 2017.

In the winter of 2000, Spivey survived a near-fatal car accident.

“When I tell my story, I say that, ‘You can pretty much figure out the rest of the narrative,’” he said wryly. “I became physically dependent upon pain pills, and it progressed and progressed