Fewer than half of U.S. jails provide medications for opioid use disorder

Just 44 percent of jails offer incarcerated people with opioid use disorder medications like methadone, buprenorphine or naltrexone to treat addiction, according to a new analysis of 1,028 jails from the National Institute of Drug Abuse. Researchers also note that jails that do offer medication for opioid use disordermostly offer those drugs to people who...