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#StopTheShock - Autistic Self Advocacy Network

ASAN and our allies asked the FDA to ban the electric shock device. Right now, the FDA is working to ban electric shock devices. The JRC will not be able to use ...

A decades-long fight over an electric shock treatment led to an FDA ...

The FDA has banned a form of electric shock treatment used on students with extreme behavior problems. So why is a Massachusetts school ...

Electric shock therapy is still allowed in one Mass. treatment facility ...

Rath: The FDA banned electric shock therapy in 2020, but a federal court overturned the ban, accusing the agency of overstepping its authority.

Help Ban Shock Therapy - Advocating for Disability Rights ... - TikTok

Help Ban Shock Therapy - Advocating for Disability Rights and Abolition of Electroshock Treatment. Join the advocacy to ban shock therapy for ...

FDA Proposes New Ban of Electrical Stimulation Devices

The FDA is proposing a ban of electrical stimulation devices intended to reduce or stop self-injurious or aggressive behavior, a step rarely ...

#StopTheShock: The Judge Rotenberg Center, Torture, and How ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the power to ban the electric shock devices used by the JRC. More than five years ago, it held a big meeting. It ...

Congress acts to help ban shock devices used for treatment at Mass ...

The fight against the use of the devices was given new impetus when a video of former Judge Rotenberg Center student Andre McCollins being ...

[U.S.] [Legis.] banning shock therapy (for autism) - Reddit

There's no proof it helps with autism, but modern electroshock therapy (electroconvulsive therapy - ECT) is used to treat depression and ...

Ban Electroshock Therapy - NeuroClastic

Using electrical stimulation devices to treat self-injurious and aggressive behavior is legal in many parts of the US. Help us change that.

Autism Speaks opposes ruling allowing electric shock therapy

A federal court this week overturned an FDA ban on electric shock devices used as a form of aversion therapy on children and adults with self-harming and ...

FDA Ban On Shock Devices For Those With Developmental ...

With the FDA poised to again ban the use of electric shock devices on people with developmental disabilities, advocates are warning that ...

FDA Again Tries to Ban 'Aversive' Shock Treatment - MedPage Today

Agency proposed a new ban to eliminate shock therapy for self-injurious or aggressive behavior.

What to know about the FDA's new effort to ban a shock device only ...

Rotenberg school leaders argue the treatment is reserved for students “for whom all other treatment options have been tried and failed.” However ...

One Step Closer to Banning Shock Therapy - The Arc of California

For decades disability community has advocated to ban the use of shock as a form of therapy, but a last-minute provision was added to a bill in Congress ...

Proposal To Ban Electrical Stimulation Devices for Self-Injurious or ...

ESDs are not used in electroconvulsive therapy, sometimes called electroshock therapy or ECT, which is unrelated to this rulemaking. 1 ...

Healey asks FDA to ban shock devices used on people with ...

The state is putting its support behind a proposed federal ban on electrical shock devices as treatment for people with disabilities.

Congress acts to help ban shock devices used for treatment at Mass ...

Language in the omnibus appropriations bill passed late last month gives the FDA the authority to ban the devices. Subscribe to WCVB on ...

FDA to ban electric shock devices for behavior control—again

The FDA is back to square one in its efforts to ban the use of electric shocks to stop aggressive behavior or self-injury, in a process that has spanned ...

FDA tries again to ban electric shock devices - Axios

The agency said treatment options for this population have evolved toward positive behavioral interventions, sometimes with drugs. · Rotenberg in ...

State's top court allows Mass. school to continue shock treatment

The Judge Rotenberg Center can continue delivering painful electric shocks to its disabled clients as part of its therapy after the state Supreme Judicial ...