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ABC’s Muir takes prime-time

hour for heroin report

In this Sept. 13, 2012 file photo, ABC News anchor David Muir DAVID BAUDER and CNN have both done slumped over the wheel of
speaks before retired boxing champion Muhammad Ali re- AP Television Writer stories recently on New his car in a busy intersec-
ceived the Liberty Medal during a ceremony at the National NEW YORK (AP) — ABC Hampshire. tion. The call to authorities
Constitution Center in Philadelphia. News is devoting an hour Muir said the attention came from a man at the
in prime time on Friday to helps the families who are scene who had lost his own
Associated Press a program anchored by going through the prob- son to heroin.
David Muir on the alarming lem. At a middle school in Man-
rise in heroin overdoses in “It helps begin a conver- chester, paramedics teach
New Hampshire. sation out there,” he said, 11- and 12-year-olds how
The special “20/20” epi- “and the more we can be to administer Narcan, the
sode will focus on several part of the conversation, drug that can revive over-
families, including one the better. I don’t look at it dose victims.
where each member of a from a competitive stand- ABC News asked whether
couple reacts differently to point at all.” any of the kids had seen
rehab and another where The problem is so much a discarded needles or oth-
a young mother and her part of life now in northern er evidence of heroin use,
newborn baby are depen- New England that Muir said and Muir said virtually all of
dent on the drug. ABC News made certain them had.
New Hampshire has been to ask presidential candi- “When you realize that
one of the hardest-hit states dates about heroin during nearly everyone you meet
for heroin and synthetic debates before the New has been touched by the
opiate abuse. The heroin Hampshire primary. drug in some way, that’s re-
problem has received sig- Being there for more than ally eye-opening,” he said.
nificant attention lately: a year of reporting brought Through its web site, ABC
CBS’ “60 Minutes” looked the statistics to life. ABC News is working with its af-
at drug use in Ohio last fall, spent some time with an filiates across the country
HBO aired a documentary emergency patrol when to do local stories about
in December focused on they were called to the what is going on in their
Cape Cod, Mass.; and NBC scene of a heroin user communities.q

Second Wachowski sibling

comes out as transgender

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four

years after “Matrix” film-

maker Lana Wachowski

revealed she was trans-

gender, her sibling and

filmmaking partner, for-

merly known as Andy Wa-

chowski, has also come

out as transgender, and

her name is Lilly, accord-

ing to a statement posted

Tuesday on the websites of

the Windy City Times and

advocacy group GLAAD.

In her statement, the

Chicago-born direc-

tor — known for the richly

constructed worlds of the

“Matrix” series, “V for Ven- In this Oct. 24, 2012, file photo, co-directors Lana Wachowski
and Andy Wachowski pose for a photo at the Los Angeles pre-
detta” and “Cloud Atlas” miere of “Cloud Atlas” in Los Angeles.

— said she had already Associated Press

come out to family, friends

and colleagues. tastic people.” Programs for Transgender
Lana Wachowski, 50, came Media. Representatives for
Lilly Wachowski, 48, has out in 2012 and received the Wachowskis did not im-
the Human Rights Cam- mediately respond to re-
been married to Alicia paign’s Visibility Award that quests for comment from
year. “GLAAD is thrilled that The Associated Press.
Blasingame since 1991 and Lilly Wachowski is able to The Wachowskis’ Netf-
be her true and authentic lix series “Sense8” is cur-
thanked her for her love self today,” wrote Nick Ad- rently in production for
ams, GLAAD’s Director of its second season.q
and support.

“Everyone is cool with it,”

Wachowski wrote. “Yes,

thanks to my fabulous sister

they’ve done it before, but

also because they’re fan-