Device To Shock Disabled For Behavior May Be Banned, FDA Reveals

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U.S. regulators are weighing whether to ban a device used for decades to shock children and adults with disabilities in an effort to stop dangerous or unwanted behavior. Only one institution in the U.S., the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton, Massachusetts, is known to use an electrical stimulation device to administer shocks, according to a report released yesterday by the Food and Drug Administration in advance of tomorrow’s advisory meeting on the device. The center is using modified versions of an approved product in violation of U.S. law, the agency said.

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