The Cocaine episode

It was a college party. Are you thinking of crack? Coke was never a ghetto drug do to how much it costs

Supposedly, this was based on a real-life event that happened to Kirk Cameron. I believe this was on the "E! True Hollywood Story", but after the cast came back from summer hiatus one year, the producers and writers would ask the kids what they did during the summer. Kirk mentioned that he was at a party with a friend and some of the people started doing cocaine. He and his friend wanted to have nothing to do with so they hid in a bathroom and locked themselves in there. And that is where they got the idea to do the show which, incidentally, ABC did NOT want to do at all. They basically had to fight ABC to get to do that episode with a disclaimer that they had an anti-drug message from Kirk Cameron at the end of the show.

I graduated from high school in 1988. The high school I went to in Texas was a combination of "Less Than Zero" and "Friday Night Lights." The head cheerleader/student council president was a huge coke fiend, as were most of the popular kids. Several kids I knew died in DUI accidents or committed suicide.