The front-line of mental-illness and addiction treatment can often be a county jail.  That’s why Ohio’s Mental Health and Addiction Services agency is distributing $3 million in grants among 38 counties to help them handle the challenge. 

Spokesman Eric Wandersleben says the money is for training, to help provide counselors and for supplies and medications. All of which, he says, can help reduce the human toll from mental-illness and addiction, while holding down the costs of running the jails.