How the Americans With Disabilities Act could change the way the nation’s jails and prisons treat addiction.

Medications are effective, but jails are still slow to provide them.

Jail time increasingly gives way to residential programs.

A widespread heroin problem could open the door to a once-radical idea.

For frustrated police, it’s a quick fix but no solution.

Is Vivitrol an answer to addiction? A drug-plagued county thinks so.