Tyra HilliardStaff Writer In the previous year, deaths related to opioid overdoses decreased in Guilford County. Now, the preventable fatalities are “back on the rise,” according to Deputy Chief James Hinson as he testified in front of a House Homeland Security subcommittee in Washington in July. Since 2014, in the unit of 911 emergency calls, Hinson charted a 500 percent increase in overdoses related. The … Continue reading Greensboro Heroin Overdose Statistics Matching Those of National Opioid Crisis