“When Roberto Hernández, a Puerto Rican, was in the final stages of preparation of a big push by Gangs to Grace, a church ministry on the west side, to save Latino gang members from lives of violent crime, he explained that white girls from the suburbs go to neighbourhoods even he wouldn’t set foot in to buy heroin.” The Economist on the Midwest’s heroin problem and its broad impact: A hydra-headed scourge. Consider this stat: “Three-quarters of heroin addicts used to take prescription drugs and switched to heroin.”
NPR: To curb pain without opioids, Oregon looks to alternative treatments.

+ OK, Lion-killing dentist, we’ve found your Internet human punching-bag replacement. Meet Martin Shkreli, the guy who bought a drug company and then raised the price of a single tablet of one medication from about 14 bucks to about $750.