Morning Updates: The new face of heroin, and Key & Peele’s anger translator
Good morning, Boston. Heroin users cut across demographic boundaries, a gymnastics star flexes in the buff, a viral mystery is solved, and the rest of today’s news.
Heroin overdoses reach a new demographic: “Rebecca Kaczynski doesn’t fit the traditional image of a heroin addict. The daughter of a bank vice president and an assistant school principal, she grew up in a loving, intact, upper-middle-class family in the Central Massachusetts town of Dudley. The 23-year-old does, however, fit an emerging demographic described in a federal study of substance use trends released Tuesday: Women, people age 18 to 25, and those with higher incomes and private insurance have been increasingly falling victim to the drug. The data also show that heroin goes hand-in-hand with addiction to prescription opioids.’’ (The Boston Globe)
Local murder puts focus on Backpage sex ads: “Attorney General Maura Healey called on Backpage.com to shut down its ‘adult’ section after two men allegedly killed an escort in Burlington whom they had met through the website. Healey said in a statement Tuesday that most of the human-trafficking cases her office has prosecuted involve advertisements on Backpage.com. Eliminating the section is a ‘long overdue step,’ she said.’’ (The Boston Globe)
Thanks but no thanks: “After a week of searching, the mystery couple whose wedding photos have been shared on Facebook over 200,000 times have been identified as Boston’s own Bill and Kristi Wilson, the couple said. … ‘We actually never needed the pictures, but we’re very grateful that everyone reached out to us,’ [Bill] Wilson said. ‘It’s very nice to know there are some very nice people in the world still left.’’’ (Boston.com)
Key and Peele debuts a new political anger translator: “When Luther the Anger Translator does make an appearance, he’s relatively subdued, taken aback at being out-angered by Hillary Rodham Clinton’s translator … ‘Well, you know how it is to campaign for president,’ Clinton (Kate Burton, who played the vice president on Scandal) says to Obama, after which [her anger translator] snarls, ‘Right now you are the dead skunk I’ve got to step over.’’’ (The New York Times)
Gymnastics star Aly Raisman poses in the nude for ESPN’s The Body Issue: “‘You work your whole life for a minute-and-a-half beam routine,’ Raisman said. ‘I work out six days, 32 hours a week for the dream of competing at the Olympics again. I’m always eating healthy, always going to bed early. Everything I put into my body is for the purpose of gymnastics.’ … There are 18 other athletes featured in the seventh annual [The Body Issue], including Revolution player Jermaine Jones, former Bruins player Tyler Seguin, and former Boston College football player Anthony Castonzo.’’ (Boston.com)
Ghostbusters shows off its new ride: Keep your eyes peeled for this vehicle, part of the new Ghostbusters movie being filmed in Boston.
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