James H. Berry, DO is Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at West Virginia University. He is a nationally recognized addiction expert who treats patients, trains clinicians, and researches innovative ways to improve behavioral healthcare. He is a ruling elder in the OPC and is committed to helping the church care for those suffering from mental illness.
Ours is an age marked by profound alienation, anxiety, and hopelessness. The previous U.S. Surgeon General observed that Americans suffer from a pervasive epidemic of loneliness. “Deaths of Despair,” such as drug overdose and suicide, have cut short the average American life expectancy for the past decade. Continue reading →