Drug Addiction
Before the hurricane, Williams had always struggled with drug addiction; he had stopped taking heroin and was in a methadone program. During his stay in prison he did not receive the substance. He couldn't sleep for about seven days. He hardly ate for six days; he just soaked the bread from lunch in water and swallowed it because he knew he needed to keep something down. After this sickness he wasn't addicted to opiates anymore. Jimmy Bower stated in an interview that Mike inspired him to kick opiates also.
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