Dr. Rahul Gupta Will be in Charleston This Week

Dr. Rahul Gupta, a former top state health official in West Virginia who is the White House drug czar, will be traveling to the Mountain State beginning today to meet with those on the frontlines of the overdose epidemic. Gupta will highlight President Joe Biden’s national drug control strategy and discuss barriers that have been removed for substance use disorder care, according to a news release from Gupta’s office. Gupta was a former commissioner of the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health and state officer, and also led the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department during the West Virginia water crisis in 2014. Gupta will visit Charleston on Wednesday and will add Hurricane and Huntington on Thursday.