Recovery Recharged with Ellen Stewart: Pushy Broad From The Bronx®: Crisis – Fentanyl How do we fight? According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), over 100,000 people in the U.S. died of drug overdoses and drug poisonings in 2021. A staggering 67 percent of those deaths involved synthetic opioids like fentanyl. What is fentanyl and why is it such a deadly drug. We talk to Dr Ming Wang for answers! Ming R. Wang, M.D. is an addiction medicine physician and an associate medical director at Caron Treatment Centers. He oversees the Detox and Chronic Pain Programs and Caron’s nursing staff. He also serves as Medical Director for the Grand View and Older Adults Programs. He is a faculty member of the Caron – Reading Hospital Addiction Medicine Fellowship. He also teaches the local and regional residents and medical students that rotate at Caron Treatment Centers. Dr. Wang started with Caron as an addiction medicine fellow in 2013 and was hired as an addiction medicine physician in March of 2014. Website: http://caron.org/