ECT sends up to 460 volts of raw electricity through the brain to induce a seizure.
Citizens Commission on Human Rights gripping documentary “Therapy or Torture: The Truth about Electroshock” exposes abuses in the $5.4 billion ECT industry.
WASHINGTON, DC, US, June 10, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ Psychiatrists working for mental health facilities in the U.S. routinely seek court orders for individuals’ involuntary commitment to their facilities and for the forced psychiatric treatment of those patients, including forced drugging and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), known more commonly as electroshock.
However some, including the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), contend that ECT is torture, causes brain damage and is a human rights abuse. The gripping documentary, “Therapy or Torture: The Truth about Electroshock,” by CCHR, reveals alarming facts about the $5.4 billion ECT industry.
Psychiatric Industry Aiming to Profit from Racism, Targets African Americans
January 28, 2021
Excerpted from the Citizens Commission on Human Rights Colorado website
WASHINGTON, DC, USA, January 28, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ While many Americans see the recent racial tension in this country as an opportunity to address the issue of racial injustice, the psychiatric-pharmaceutical industry sees it as an opportunity to expand their reach – very profitably – into the African American community.
Psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health groups, many funded by pharmaceutical companies, had already been arbitrarily asserting that African Americans are 20% more likely to experience serious mental health problems, and less likely to identify their own mental health problems, than the general population.
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