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The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, a private Massachusetts residential and day school, has for decades used shock therapy on students with developmental and emotional disabilities to curb ...
Facing mounting pressure and at least one criminal investigation over its use of shock therapy on its wards, a Massachusetts clinic that is home to several District of Columbia students has gone ...
Shock Therapy: In a separate case, “the family of a former student who received electric shocks at a special needs school has agreed to receive $65,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming the treatment ...
BOULDER - When the Boulder College of Massage Therapy opened in 1975 under a slightly different name, it was only the second-ever school of this kind in the nation. Now, in less than one week, it ...
For years, owners of the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton, Mass. have fought in court to keep a disturbing piece of closed-circuit video away from public eyes. The school for ...
Learn about Tammy Wynette's first marriage, during which she was institutionalized and received shock therapy before she left for Nashville.
Anti-aging-obsessed tech mogul Bryan Johnson revealed he has reversed aging in his penis by 15 years by undergoing “painful” shock therapy on his genitals.
Despite severe risks and without a crime committed, a Minnesota judge authorized doctors to forcibly administer electroconvulsive therapy—while barring key witnesses from the hearing.
Mass. school prevails despite decades of opposition to its use of shocks for therapy FDA trying again to stop the shocks is the latest effort to ban aversive treatment ...
A Stanley Cup winner straps Cody Blick into a machine with electrical pads and wet sponges and shocks his back for 90 minutes.
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 ...