Opioids Hit Home: Heroin, fentanyl cause most opioid overdoses in Bartow

More than 33,000 Americans — 91 a day — died last year from opioid overdoses according to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Seventy-two of those deaths occurred in Bartow County, said coroner Joel Guyton. “We recorded 146 opioid overdoses in the county last year,” he said. “Seventy-two ...