To Lift the Burden: Reducing the Costs of Untreated Mental Illness in Ohio While Improving Care

April 5, 2005 To Lift the Burden: Reducing the Costs of Untreated Mental Illness in Ohio While Improving Care With almost two and a half million Ohioans suffering a mental disorder in any given year, mental illness touches almost every family in the state. The direct and indirect costs to Ohio of mental illness total more than $6.5 billion a year. State and county governments are forced to pay millions of dollars each year in emergency medical care, education interventions, long-term nursing home care, unemployment, housing, and law enforcement, including juvenile justice, jail and prison costs. Everyone is . . .