Dr. Rahul Gupta

The new White House drug czar has testified that the opioid epidemic got so bad in drug-ravaged West Virginia that the state was having trouble finding foster parents to care for children.

On this West Virginia Morning, the coal industry has been through upheavals over the last two centuries, but none more significant than the Mine Wars from 100 years ago this month.

President Joe Biden is expected to nominate a former West Virginia health official as director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

On this West Virginia Monring, the nation’s opioid crisis hit first and hardest in the Ohio Valley. West Virginia, in particular, has suffered some of the…

Rahul Gupta, MD has resigned from his post as commissioner and state health officer for the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources,…

A panel charged with helping shape the state’s new medical marijuana law met in Morgantown Thursday, Dec. 14. The West Virginia Department of Health and…

A new program that tracks drug overdoses will be discussed this week at Marshall University.West Virginia health officer Dr. Rahul Gupta and others will…

An advisory board that will help develop a medical marijuana program in West Virginia has been announced, with state Bureau for Public Health Commissioner…

West Virginia's U.S. senators say the state will get almost $1.3 million in federal funding for its clinics program to treat black lung disease that…

West Virginia's health officer says the flu outbreak has increased statewide and is expected to peak in a few weeks.Dr. Rahul Gupta, state health officer…