The Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia - The United Nations urged Indonesia on Thursday to treat drug abusers like patients, not criminals, saying the shift could help prevent an explosion in HIV infections. The roughly 28,000 drug users jailed by Indonesia should be in clinics, not detention facilities, said Christian Kroll, the U.N. global coordinator for HIV/AIDS. "People who injected drugs have a disease," Kroll told reporters in the capital, Jakarta. "People who have a disease don't belong in prison. They need to be treated." Indonesia, which has just 45 drug rehabilitation centers,...
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