WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:03.900 Brian Hummel: When I found Jefferson at the center, I was definitely broken 00:00:06.210 --> 00:00:06.540 and 00:00:09.930 --> 00:00:11.130 they gave me my life back. 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:22.050 It starts pretty easy back at 13 we started getting crack cocaine out here. 00:00:22.710 --> 00:00:26.310 And I had a gym teacher in that 00:00:26.310 --> 00:00:29.575 school that they were, he was dealing drugs and 00:00:29.625 --> 00:00:31.425 Brian Hummel: a lot of us got hooked on crack cocaine. 00:00:31.605 --> 00:00:37.785 I knew a minute that I took a hit of crack cocaine at 13 years old that I 00:00:37.785 --> 00:00:39.225 wanted more, and that's all I wanted. 00:00:39.585 --> 00:00:45.105 And it developed into theft and it developed into the many things 00:00:45.105 --> 00:00:46.515 that would supply that habit. 00:00:46.575 --> 00:00:52.395 I served 27 years of my life in and out of prison. 00:00:52.495 --> 00:00:57.845 It was at one in the morning, I was on a bus and I was going by Wadsworth 00:00:57.895 --> 00:01:02.575 and 44th, and I heard the bus driver say Wadsworth and 44th, and I was on 00:01:02.575 --> 00:01:06.595 my phone all that day trying to find a place to accept me with Medicaid. 00:01:07.945 --> 00:01:09.985 And I couldn't find nobody. 00:01:10.795 --> 00:01:15.384 And something came to my mind about a crisis center that was close to 44th, 00:01:15.384 --> 00:01:18.414 and I yelled at the bus stop, Hey, stop. 00:01:19.074 --> 00:01:23.305 And I got off the bus and I didn't even know what direction I was 00:01:23.305 --> 00:01:28.225 walking in, but I had a feeling that this detox was up this way. 00:01:28.675 --> 00:01:31.794 And I'd never been in detox in my life, but I knew I needed to be there. 00:01:32.979 --> 00:01:37.180 And I found it and I knocked on the front door and that guard opened up 00:01:37.180 --> 00:01:39.525 and I came in and I said, I need help. 00:01:41.264 --> 00:01:43.845 And here I am. 00:01:50.530 --> 00:01:57.519 We all have a journey and we all have a process and I believe in miracles. 00:01:58.180 --> 00:01:58.810 I truly do.