Many may assume that electric shock therapy is an antiquated practice and a thing of the past. It’s been widely condemned by organizations like the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the ...

A Massachusetts institution for the developmentally disabled can continue to use controversial electric shock devices to address aggressive or self-harming behavior in residents, the state's ...

The use of forced electroshock therapy has long been condemned as a method of torture by the United Nations. Related. FDA bans electric shock devices for conditioning against aggressive behaviors.

Consideration of Gregoire's proposal to regulate aversive therapy follows a September ruling from the Supreme Judicial Court that allowed the center to continue using the electric shock devices ...

The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC), a special needs day and residential school in Canton, has become known for using electric shock devices on clients for self-injurious or aggressive behavior. It ...

BOSTON, Mass. (SHNS)–Vowing to work with families to find alternative therapies, Rep. Danielle Gregoire renewed her decade-long push to ban the use of a controversial electric shock device for ...

A Massachusetts school can continue using electric shock devices on its students with intellectual disabilities after the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned the Food and Drug Administration’s ban ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is once again proposing to ban the use of electric skin shock devices on students at the Canton-based Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, but the ...

BOSTON — Vowing to work with families to find alternative therapies, Rep. Danielle Gregoire renewed her decade-long push to ban the use of a controversial electric shock device for people who ...