BOSTON – Opioid-related hospital visits are "skyrocketing" in Massachusetts, with heroin-related cases tripling from 2007 to 2014, according to Health Policy Commission figures discussed Wednesday.
Opioid-related hospital visits have increased from around 30,000 in 2007 to more than 55,000 in 2014, with non-heroin opioids accounting for the bulk of the trips, an analysis by the commission found.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — On a fence-mending mission, President Barack Obama held up Argentina on Wednesday as an emerging world leader worthy of U.S. support, as he and Argentine President Mauricio Macri broke with years of recent tensions between their countries.
Obama's state visit to Buenos Aires quickly turned into a love-fest between him and Macri, who in December replaced hot-blooded former President Cristina Fernandez, long a thorn in Obama's side. Obama lavished praise on Macri and said his visit was "so personally important," even riffing on his boyhood interest in Argentinian literature and culture.
