it was already becoming a big rovlin. within a couple of years of matthews murder, very high rates of crime. eventually hit 70% of the crime in the state of wyoming. it was related back to meth. you had hear some of the highest per-capita rural rates of meth use in the nation and that continues to today. it has been for several years. things have improved in some ways. i was driven by something very personal. once i learned about meth and i know the national media was not really rip hoarding in any significant way on this story. that didn't really begin until somewhere around 2004, 2005, six. it became a significant national story that magazines like thai and "newsweek" were reporting on. on a very personal level as a gay man, you know in the 1980s i was in new york and the aids epidemic really started to hit by the mid-80s and was becoming catastrophic in new york. i ended up you know losing many many friends that i had. i would say probably 75% maybe of the friends and acquaintances that i had in new york that were gay