Matt Kielty
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Because what was going on in the 80s was...
About rising violence and crime.
Dramatic evidence tonight that crack use is spreading wider.
90,000 Californians are in prison and the crime rate's still going up.
We keep escalating the drug war, the drug use goes up.
These became the issues of the day.
In the course of about a five-week period, some kind of things came together.
John said one day he was reading an article.
An article that said, education, kids who drop out of school or don't make it, the lack of self-esteem.
that self-esteem was connected to how well kids do in school.
That maybe self-esteem was a key component in why people were using drugs.
He was this popular psychologist, sex educator.
That kids were maybe having sex at an early age so they could feel better about themselves.
And he latches on to self-esteem as a focal point.