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The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision Tuesday regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) controversial ban of the use of electrical stimulation devices as a treatment for self-harming individuals. The petitioner, the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, Inc. (the Center), argued that the defendant lacked standing to make decisions regarding the implementation of medical devices in medical practices.
The Center is a facility that “treats patients with severe mental disabilities.” These disabilities can lead to the patients inflicting harm upon themselves, which the Center has sometimes treated using an electrical stimulation device. The device “briefly shocks patients causing them to reduce or cease their self-injurious behaviors.” Around 20% of patients are treated using this method, and the Center is the only facility in the country that uses this treatment on individuals who self-harm, the opinion