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CCHR Supports U.N. and Rights’ Groups Demand for Urgent FDA Ban on Skin Electric Shock Devices

FDA accused of delaying ban on the electrical device that uses pain to modify behavior By CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog December 18,…

FDA regulates use of two electric shock devices for children’s ‘behavioral’ issues—is one torture and the other “treatment?”

By Kelly Patricia O’Meara Published by Citizens Commission on Human Rights The Mental Health Industry Watchdog May 10, 2017 More than a year after a…

FDA Proposes Ban on Skin-Shock Devices to Punish Misbehavior in Children

By CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog April 28, 2016 The Food and Drug Administration has proposed banning devices that use painful electric shocks as…

Shock School Critic Says FDA Should Crack Down on Aversive Therapy

My Fox Boston – June 6, 2014 By Mike Beaudet, reporter Kevin Rothstein, producer BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) — A doctor who was part of an FDA…

New York to pull students from the Judge Rotenberg Center?

In light of recent developments, Councilman Vincent J. Gentile, a long-time advocate for New York’s most vulnerable, is calling on New York City Department of Education Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott to remove all New York children from the infamous Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Massachusetts once and for all.