Ect Press Releases

A national coalition of health and human rights organizations, attorneys, medical experts, and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) survivors says the U.S.

After a public records request revealed that children in the under 5 age group are given electroshock, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights is calling for a ban its use citing a lack of lack of clinical studies on safety and effectiveness.

Encouraged by its decline, CCHR, a patients' rights watchdog, launches a series exposing the downfall of electroshock treatment and its long-term dangers, including brain injury.

Subjecting 100,000 Americans, including children, to electroshock (ECT) constitutes torture, given the risks associated with it, CCHR says.