For the last six years, the Metropolitan Detention Center, New Mexico’s largest jail, has been administering methadone to inmates with drug addictions, one of a small number of jails and prisons around the country that do so.In November, however, the jail’s warden, Ramon Rustin, said he wanted to stop treating inmates with methadone. Moreover, Mr. Rustin said he did not believe that the program truly worked.

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