Johnny Williams Sr. 

Brickmason

Brunswick, Georgia 

Cocaine. My body accepted it one hundred percent. The euphoria feeling? My body accepted it—automatic. The first day I did it was the first day I got hooked because I wanted another hit. I wanted some more. First time I ever did it, I was hooked. Some people say you have to do it more than one time, but no, that’s just not true. The time you put the cocaine inside your system, you’re hooked, because your brain needs it. It’s a pleasure drug. You know what I’m saying? It’s a pleasure drug. But then it gets to the point to where you start abusing it, and misusing it, and that’s when you do all kinds of extravagant things. I mean you got more money, you find ways and means of getting more. If you ain’t got the money, that’s when people start breaking in, stealing, and trying to get more money, they will get their stuff. That’s why … I’ve seen that happen many times. It started happening one time, so I had to get away from it. Hey, I’m out here man, not working, I’m trying to, you know, support my habit. So I got to go and take somebody’s shit. I got to take somebody’s stuff and steal it and go sell it and go buy me some drugs. I got to have it. My brain, my brain needed it. So I really don’t want to put that in my body, because I know when it activates that dopamine in my brain, it’s all over then.