Medical Issues
Post Nasal Drip Not Caused by Allergies or GERD
There’s posts all over the internet about ENT’s claiming excessive mucus / phlegm / Post Nasal Drip is caused by Allergies or GERD. I strongly disagree with this assessment.
Nine months after getting a Upper Respiratory Infection, I still have excessive mucus / phlegm / Post Nasal Drip. Until I had this Upper Respiratory Infection, my throat felt perfect. Medical professionals are claiming it’s caused by allergies which I haven’t had during my entire life. I don’t have any of the classic allergy symptoms like sneezing, watery eyes or runny nose, which seemed to escape the medical professionals I saw.
I explained to my Primary Physician how the Post Nasal Drip began when I got the Upper Respiratory Infection, how it has continued months afterwards and how I never had allergies. His response was to say “people’s bodies change” and told me to start taking Nasacort & Xyzal, both of which are used to treat Allergy symptoms. IMO, prescribing Allergy medications for someone who has no history of allergies is the wrong treatment.
A ENT I went to claimed it was caused by either GERD or Throat Thrush. I tried taking nystatin oral for Thrush for 2 weeks and it made no difference.
I went to another ENT and he claimed the cause was most likely GERD so he prescribed Omeprazole. I tried taking it and all it did was give me a headache. Also Omeprazole has many dangerous side effects.
I’m in excellent health but this Post Nasal Drip / excessive mucus / phlegm in my throat is maddening.
Vasomotor Rhinitis: Symptoms, Causes & Treatment
Vasomotor (nonallergic) rhinitis is inflammation of nasal tissues that results in sneezing, nasal congestion, runny nose or postnasal drip.
I changed my search words a few days ago to “nonallergic post nasal drip” and began seeing articles like the one above which seems to match my condition.
They state: “Vasomotor (nonallergic) rhinitis is inflammation of nasal tissues that results in sneezing, nasal congestion, runny nose or postnasal drip. Unlike allergic rhinitis (or hay fever), the symptoms are of an unknown cause. Likely, they result from triggers that irritate your nose”.
None of the doctors I saw mentioned “nonallergic rhinitis”.
Statistics claim Post Nasal Drip affects millions of people around the world. With all the posts on the internet from people who are at their wits end about post nasal drip, it’s inexplicable that medical professionals aren’t better versed in long term Post Nasal Drip after a Upper Respiratory Infection and it’s treatment.
Chronic Rhinitis Treatment | Non-Invasive Solution | RhinAer
RhinAer treats the root causes of rhinorrhea, post-nasal drip, and congestion by disrupting the posterior nasal nerve that triggers rhinitis. Learn more.
Effective Treatment for Chronic Post-Nasal Drip
Most people experience excess mucus production around a cold or allergies. Chronic post-nasal drip is similar, but it sticks around longer than it should. Do yo
I then ran searches for “nonallergic post nasal drip treatment” and sites like the above came up which mentions procedures such as ClariFix© and RhinAer.
I’m posting this article so people who has “nonallergic post nasal drip” can post their comments about their experience with this condition and treatments they used which worked.
Here’s more posts I found from other people about post nasal drip –
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Rapid Decline in Health After Hospice Medications
Rapid decline in family member’s health within weeks of taking Medications prescribed by hospice.
A family member who was 97, was diagnosed with terminal cancer around May 28, 2022. At the advise of his primary care doctor, he agreed to be cared for by hospice. At the time he was diagnosed, his health had remained about the same as it had been for the prior year. He was able to walk with a walker, was lucid, coherent, watch tv, go to the bathroom unassisted and play cards.
Our family thought he might have about 6 months to live since there was no noticeable changes in his health.
After hospice care began on 5/30/22, we noticed a rapid decline in his health within a couple of weeks of taking Medications prescribed by hospice which included symptoms of being “drugged up” which we had never seen before.
It’s important to note that the only medication he had been taking was Fexofenadine to control excess phlegm & mucus. He had been taking this for years and it was prescribed by his primary care physician, with no noticeable side effects.
The medications hospice prescribed were as follows;
| Medication | Dosage | Time | Purpose (per hospice) |
| Mirtazapine | 2.5 mg | bedtime | insomnia / appetite |
| Methadone | 2.5 mg | every 12 hours | pain |
| Metoclopramide | 5 mg | every 12 hours | routinely – nausea / vomiting |
| Dexamethasone | 4 mg | morning | inflammation / pain |
| Senna | 8.6 mg | bedtime | to prevent constipation |
| Hydromorphone | 2 mg | every hour as needed | as needed for pain (this given during his last 2 days at home) |
| Alprazolam | 0.25 mg | every 6 hours | as needed for anxiety (this given during his last 2 days at home to calm him) |
After a few weeks, when we began noticing symptoms of him being “drugged up”, so we researched the medications hospice prescribed.
Mirtazapine was particularly concerning. According to medlineplus.gov, it’s prescribed “to treat depression”. He never had any symptoms of depression during his entire life so we couldn’t understand why they prescribed such a medication. Some of the side effects include; drowsiness, dizziness, anxiousness and confusion.
Methadone was another concern because, at the time he began care from hospice, he wasn’t complaining about pain. According to medlineplus.gov, “Methadone is used to relieve severe pain in people who are expected to need pain medication around the clock for a long time and who cannot be treated with other medications”. One of the side effects listed is “stomach pain” which is what he complained about on the day they took him to their facility, days before he died. Of course, we have no way of knowing if the stomach pain was due to the Methadone or cancer.
Metoclopramide, per medlineplus.gov is “used to relieve heartburn and speed the healing of ulcers and sores in the esophagus (tube that connects the mouth to the stomach) in people who have gastroesophageal reflux disease” . He didn’t have any preexisting “gastroesophageal reflux disease”. A nurse from hospice explained that Metoclopramide was prescribed for “nausea / vomiting”.
Dexamethasone, per medlineplus.gov “relieves inflammation (swelling, heat, redness, and pain) and is used to treat certain forms of arthritis; skin, blood, kidney, eye, thyroid, and intestinal disorders (e.g., colitis); severe allergies; and asthma”. Side effects include; vomiting, dizziness, insomnia, restlessness, depression and anxiety.
After researching the medications hospice was giving such as Mirtazapine and Methadone, we raised our concerns to his hospice assigned nurse. She agreed for us to stop giving the Mirtazapine to him. This was around 3 weeks into their treatment and by this time, he was sleeping a lot when setting anywhere, such as in his wheelchair or on the couch. He was not yet bedridden.
I also called his primary doctor’s office (which he had been going to for over 30 years) to discuss & express my concerns over the medications hospice was giving him. A nurse who worked there who expressed how much she cared about our family member came on the phone. This nurse who told me in the past to call her if we ever needed any help, was rude and would not listen to me or let me get a word in. She said there was nothing they could do because he was under hospice care.
Around Friday June 24, 2022 he walked into the living room unassisted for the last time. When it was time for him to go to bed, he said he could not stand up so I put him in his wheelchair and helped him get into bed. This is where he remained for the following few days until hospice came and got him.
Saturday 6/25/22, he sleep almost the entire day in his bed. This was the first time he didn’t get out of bed.
He was awake some on Sunday 6/26/22. By this time he was only able to drink ensure shakes, no solid food and was bedridden. Sunday evening was the first time I heard him make delusional comments. He rang the call button and when I went into his room he asked me if he was on the “radio” and “CNN”. He also asked me to confirm his name and asked where he was. I called the nurse and she said to give him some Alprazolam to calm him down. He then went to sleep.
Monday, 6/27/22 he sleep the entire day.
Tuesday, 6/28/22 he was awake sometimes. He drank 2 ensures and a couple of bottles of spring water. I changed his diaper in the morning. He kept saying he had to pee. I was able to assist him to pee in a urine bottle several times. He continued saying he had to pee and was constantly pulling on his diaper. He seemed “out-of-his-head” and irrational. We checked his diaper and it was dry. Around 3;30 pm I called the nurse and asked what could be done to calm him down. She told me to give him Alprazolam, so I did.
Around 6PM he was still obsessing about peeing and pulling his diaper so I called hospice back again and they told me to give him a Methadone. They also told me to give him a Alprazolam around 9:30 pm, which I did.
Around 10:15 pm he said he had to throw up so he began throwing up. I called hospice and they sent a nurse to the home. She arrived around 11:00 pm and gave him medications which calmed him down and put him to sleep. She said his oxygen level was a bit low so she hooked him up to an oxygen machine. This was the first time (to my knowledge) his oxygen level was checked.
Around 11:45, after she had been gone for about 15 minutes, I noticed a gargling sound coming from his throat which indicated he had fluids in his throat. I called hospice back about this and they said they would be sending people to get him and admit him to the hospice center. When they arrived, he was fast asleep and didn’t wake up.
Wednesday, 6/29/22, we went to visit him in the hospice center. It appeared that he was heavily sedated… he never woke up. I asked them if they were giving him any fluids and they said they weren’t.
He remained fast asleep for the following days and died on 7/2/22.
The facility our family member was taken to was very nice and so were the staff. Everyone we had contact with at hospice was kind and seemed professional, so we trusted them.
We did everything we could to keep him alive, giving him water & ensures until hospice took him. We thought he would get care similar to what he would receive at a hospital. It now seems they’re taking him to their facility, was a death sentence, due to them not giving him water or sustenance, and drugs which kept him sedated so he could never wake up.
It’s astounding that he could go from being able to do things he were able to do for the past year to dying within 30 days. I can’t help but question hospice prescribing medications such as Mirtazapine, when he had no prior history of depression or mental disorders.
We can’t help but wonder if the medications caused him to do & say delusional things towards the end of his at-home care. This has left us with questions as to weather his rapid decline was due to the drugs hospice was giving him or the progression of his cancer.
I’m not a medical professional so I can’t make a professional assessment as to medical care our family member received. I’m posting this so medical professionals can post their opinions (below in the comments) as to standard of care our family member received and for family’s who’s had similar experiences with hospice.
If you’d like to contact the author of this article, please us the contact box below.
Problems with Hospice At-Home Care
They came 3 days a week to give a bath and change diapers. 3 days a week was sufficient for giving him a bath, but only 3 times a week to change his diaper, one time in the mornings, 3 days a week is not sufficient for those who has difficulties changing diapers on an adult.
No 24/7 assistance available for changing diapers. Diaper changing was not discussed when our family member signed up for hospice and it’s not a task everyone is able to do… especially diapers with poop, then cleanup’s afterwards. Plus having to see your elderly family member naked. No assistance in the evening, on off days or the weekend is available with hospice.
We asked if they could recommend a service we could pay to out of our own pocket to change diapers & cleanup as needed and they could not recommend such a service. In our case, we only had to change diapers a few times because he was able to go to the bathroom & pee in a urinal bottle until the last few days he was with us. We did find a service on our own which we were going to start using which could get here within 1 hour, when-ever we needed them, but hospice took our family member to their facility before the service we found could start.
Nurse / medical professional came only once a week. They don’t offer daily at-home medical care. This means family members are responsible for administering medications / pills.
Because of the lack of at-home diaper changing support and once a week medical visits, hospice is more of a do-it-yourself, wing-it program in which family members does almost everything so it’s not full at-home medical service.
ARTICLES:
Patients Want A ‘Good Death’ At Home, But Hospice Care Can Badly Strain Families
Fewer Americans are dying in a hospital, under the close supervision of doctors and nurses. That trend has been boosted by an expanded Medicare benefit that helps people live out their final days at home in hospice care. But as home hospice grows, so has the burden on families left to provide much of the care.
Per the above article: “I’m not anti-hospice at all,” said Joy Johnston, who relocated to New Mexico years ago at age 40 to care for her dying mother.
“But I think people aren’t prepared for all the effort that it takes to give someone a good death at home.”
Surveys show dying at home is what most Americans say they want. But it’s “not all it’s cracked up to be,” said Johnston, a caregiver advocate and writer from Atlanta.
According to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll, 7 in 10 Americans say they would prefer to die at home. And that’s the direction the health care system is moving, as part of an effort to avoid unnecessary and expensive treatment at the end of life.
Like a growing share of hospice patients, McCasland has dementia. She needs a service that hospice rarely provides — a one-on-one health attendant for several hours, so the regular family caregiver can get a break each day. When Velez is not around, John McCasland — Jean’s husband of nearly 50 years — is the person in charge at home.
“I have said from the beginning that was my intention, that she would be at home through the duration, as long as I was able,” John said.
But what hospice provided wasn’t enough help. So he has had to drain the couple’s retirement accounts to hire Velez, a private caregiver, out-of-pocket.
Hospice agencies usually bring in a hospital bed, an oxygen machine or a wheelchair — whatever equipment is needed. Prescriptions show up at the house for pain and anxiety. But hands-on help is scarce. According to Medicare, hospice benefits can include home health aides and homemaker services. But in practice, that in-person help is often limited to a couple of baths a week. Medicare data reveals that, on average, a nurse or aide is only in the patient’s home 30 minutes, or so, per day.
Families often don’t consider whether they’re getting their money’s worth because they’re not paying for hospice services directly: Medicare gets the bills.
“It does take a toll” on families, said Katherine Ornstein, an associate professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, who studies what typically happens in the last years of patients’ lives. The increasing burden on loved ones — especially spouses — is reaching a breaking point for many people, her research shows. This particular type of stress has even been given a name: caregiver syndrome.
“Our long-term-care system in this country is really using families — unpaid family members,” she said. “That’s our situation.”
A few high-profile advocates have even started questioning whether hospice is right for everybody. For some who have gone through home hospice with a loved one, the difficult experience has led them to want something else for themselves.
Hospice Killed My Father.
I can’t believe I’m reading all these horrible posts about Hospice now. I wish I found out about this earlier. My father died at the age of 73, he had cancer before but he did surgery to remove them and also undergone treatments. This was 8 years ago.
Per the above article: “Those nurses came and brought pain killers and other drugs. MORPHINE is what they told us to give my dad. I’ve seen the dramatic changes on my dad once he started taking the morphine. I’ve never seen the doctor EVER. the nurses just do diagnosis over the phone. On the night before my dad passes away. The nurse ordered for us to continue giving morphine to my dad every 20 mins. My dad passed away few mins after the nurse from hospice came. I didn’t know ANYTHING about hospice before. It’s been 2 months since my father passed away. We only found out about this now and are very devastated. English is not our first language so we were pretty much lied to and taken advantage of. PLEASE DON’T TAKE YOUR FATHER OR MOTHER OR ELDER FAMILY MEMBERS TO HOSPICE. THEY WILL KILL THEM WITH MORPHINE. I wish I knew about this earlier so I could save my dad. I hope hospice gets caught soon and someone to sue them. I know it is in the law. ———- “The Controlled Substances Act is set forth at Title 21 of the United States Code: 21 USC, subchapter1, starting at part A, Section 801. The DEA states that it is responsible for (among many other responsibilities): ” Enforcement of the provisions of the Controlled Substances Act as they pertain to the manufacture, distribution, and dispensing of legally produced controlled substances. ” The DEA also has the authority for: “Coordination and cooperation with federal, state and local law enforcement officials on mutual drug enforcement efforts ”
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Coronavirus Symptoms, How Far a Cough or Sneeze Travels & More
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Shock Treatments Torture Which May Cause Brain Damage & Alzheimer’s
The Truth About Electroshock
It’s been described by patients as a grenade going off in your body. It’s called electroconvulsive therapy. And, despite what you might think, it’s not an antiquated medical practice of some bygone era. In fact, ECT is inflicted on a million people worldwide. Every year.
In this gripping exposé, the $5.4 billion ECT business, its history, practitioners and devastating results are revealed in graphic detail.
HISTORY OF ETC
In 1938 Dr. Ugo Cerletti became interested in how pigs were prepared for slaughter by being electrically shocked through the temples. This rendered them unconscious but did not kill them.
The idea to use ECT in humans came first to Dr. Cerletti after watching pigs being electrically shocked before being butchered in Rome. The story goes that on his way home, he stopped at a butcher shop. The shop didn’t have the cut he wanted, and was told to walk back to the slaughter house behind the shop to have the cut made for him. At that slaughter house, the technique used for butchering cattle was to shock their heads. The cattle would go into seizures and fall down. This made it easy to slit their throats, as the cattle couldn’t resist or fight back.
Dr Cerletti reasoned that ECT might be useful for schizophrenia so he decieded to try it on his patients. He found such electric shocks caused his obsessive and difficult mental patients to become meek and manageable.
Soon, other “doctors” followed suit and began using shock treatment on their patients. It is important to note that these “treatments” have little expense and produce high profits for quacks who administer them.
It is also important to note that the human brain operates by minute electrical impulses and is very delicate.
Psychiatry’s Electroconvulsive Shock Treatment (ECT): A Crime Against Humanity
Psychiatry’s Electroconvulsive SHOCK TREATMENT A Crime Against Humanity by Lawrence Stevens, J.D. What used to be called electroshock or electric shock treatment (EST) is now usually called “electroconvulsive therapy”, often abbreviated ECT. The term is misleading, because ECT is not a form of therapy, despite the claims of its supporters.
According to the above article; “ECT consists of electricity being passed through the brain with a force of from 70 to 400 volts and an amperage of from 200 milli amperes to 1.6 amperes (1600 milli amperes)”. This level of voltage causes the patient to have seizures.
At higher voltage levels, Electric Chairs applied electric current to convicts heads to fry their brains and kill them.
Any rational person should conclude that forcing electrical current through a person’s brain and causing a patient to have seizures is barbaric and yet another example of “man’s inhumanity to man”.
It is also only reasonable to conclude that anything which the body perceives as painful, is just plain BAD and contrary to God and Nature.
New Study Confirms Electroshock (ECT) Causes Brain Damage
A new study shows ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) causes brain damage? That’s not what you will find in the many promotional press releases published in the mainstream media. As usual, biopsychiatric press releases always come out before the research articles are easily available, making critical analysis impossible until the wave of false promotional euphoria has passed.
A 2012 article in Huffington Post concludes that “Electroshock (ECT) Causes Permanent Brain Damage”
Results of a study show that ECT has lasting effects on the functional architecture of the brain.” The result of these lasting effects is “decrease in functional connectivity” with other parts of the brain. In other words, the frontal lobes are cut off from the rest of the brain. Therefore the effects of ECT are similar to a Lobotomy, whereby part of the brain is removed.
Lobotomy, ECT and psychiatric drugs all share the common factor that they “work” by damaging the brain and suppressing brain function.
Electricity should be used as intended.. to power lights, appliances, etc NOT hooked up to human beings or animals. That also includes tasers… they should be also outlawed.
Tasers and Shock Treatments has caused deaths. Just google “Shock Treatment Deaths” or “Tasers Deaths” and you’ll find instances and statistics.
It is hard to believe in the 21 century that Shock Treatments hasn’t been outlawed. I think doctors who support Shock Treatments are either incompetent and/or they have a monetary interest in administering these low cost / high profit quack “treatments”.
Shock Treatments are an ideal way for the most incompetent Doctors and Psychiatrist to make money. They could have graduated at the bottom of their class and have no working knowledge of medicine, yet still make thousands of dollars a day pushing an on / off button on a ECT device.
It’s no wonder these “doctors” swear ECT helps patients because it’s a gravy train which they don’t want to end. There’s a whole food chain which has a vested interest to making sure these barbaric treatments continue including Doctors who administer them, manufactures which make ECT devices and profit from their sales, lobbyist which is bought & paid for by Doctors and ECT manufactures. Congressmen who are paid by lobbyist, Doctors and ECT manufactures to prevent legislation from being passed which would outlaw Shock Treatments.
This is another example of greed and capitalism gone amok – patients and common sense be damned!
I think any doctor who is responsible for their patient receiving Shock Treatments should get hooked up to a ECT set on maximum (400 volts) and they should have the SH*IT Shocked out of them to see how THEY like it. That might make them think twice about performing electro torture on another human being.
In the 1970’s my mother had shock treatments and she was never the same afterwards.
For years after the shock treatments, any time she would hear an electric motor humming it would drive my mother nuts and make her feel like passing out. That is because the frequency of an electric motor is 60 cycles per second, the same as the alternating current used in shock treatments. The sound of a electric motor apparently made her remember and re-live the torture and pain she endured at the hands of a QUACK “doctor”.
She now has Alzheimer’s and cannot walk. Out of a family of 7, she was the only sibling to have shock treatments and she is the only one from her family to have Alzheimer’s disease and not able to walk.
My Mom does not know what day it is, what year it is or what city she’s living in. There are times when she doesn’t know who I am.
It is a documented fact that some people who has had shock treatments suffers severe memory loss.
I feel that her having shock treatments caused her to have Alzheimer’s disease and to not be able to walk.
More articles about the dangers of Shock Treatments…
http://psychiatricnews.wordpress.com/electro-shock-therapy/
http://www.cchr.org/cchr-reports/brutal-therapies/introduction-1.html
http://www.oikos.org/ectfried.htm
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Teen Diagnosed with Stunted Growth Kidneys
Medical tests recently revealed our 16 year old son has small kidneys for his age. Doctors say his kidneys appeared to stop growing when he was about 10, so he has kidney’s the size of a 10 year old.
We now wonder if antibiotics or Miralax could be the cause?
When he was about 5, his doctor put him on some strong antibiotics (cefuroxime). At one point she prescribed antibiotics which were so strong, walmart pharmacy would not even fill them. This alarmed us so much we stopped seeing that doctor and went to a different doctor.
The 10 Worst Medications for Your Kidneys – GoodRx
Medications that can directly damage the kidneys are known as “nephrotoxic medications.” Learn more about these medications here.
According to an article “The 10 Worst Medications for Your Kidneys – GoodRx”
“Aminoglycoside antibiotics are known for causing kidney injury—even at low doses. People with chronic kidney disease, dehydration, or those who have been taking these antibiotics for a long time are at particularly high risk. The most toxic aminoglycoside is neomycin, followed by gentamicin, tobramycin, and amikacin”.
From an early age, our son also had constipation. His pediatrician (the same doctor which prescribed the strong antibiotics) told us to give him Miralax, which he took for several years.
We recently found out about his Kidney condition as a result of his doctor ordering blood tests for another unrelated medical issue.
We had no idea he had any kidney issues because he seemed healthy.
He is now seeing Pediatric nephrologists who are monitoring his kidney’s health. They told us he may eventually need dialysis. We have made major changes to his diet to keep his kidneys as healthy as possible for as long as possible so hopefully he won’t need dialysis anytime soon.
We now wonder if antibiotics or Miralax could be the cause?
I searched all over the internet for articles about Stunted Growth Kidneys in children and could find none, so I decided to post this short article about our experience with this issue.
If anyone else is familiar with possible causes of Stunted Growth Kidneys in children, please post your comments below.
MiraLAX Problems and Children (and COVID)
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has been conducting a study on polyethylene glycol 3350 (PEG 3350), the active ingredient in MiraLAX, and its effect on a child’s brain. The study …
9-14-2023 update: I just found the above article which stated “Multiple pieces of evidence to provide biologically plausible mechanisms linking oral ingestion of polyethylene glycol-3350 to acute kidney injury from oxalate nephropathy”.
Full quote: Potential MiraLAX kidney injuries? MiraLAX is composed of polyethylene glycol-3350. This compound is composed of individual units of ethylene glycol. Ethylene glycol is a well-known cause of oxalate nephropathy. Polyethylene glycol once inside the body is capable of causing acute kidney injury from oxalate nephropathy. The literature contains multiple pieces of evidence to provide biologically plausible mechanisms linking oral ingestion of polyethylene glycol-3350 to acute kidney injury from oxalate nephropathy.
Growth Failure in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease | NIDDK
Growth failure is a complication of CKD in which children do not grow as expected. When a child is below the third percentile-meaning 97 percent of children the same age and gender are taller-he or she has growth failure. 1 CKD is kidney disease that does not go away with treatment and tends to get worse over time.
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Vaping Possibly linked to Illnesses and Deaths
5 Deaths possibly linked to Vaping and 450 Illnesses Nationwide
U.S. health officials renewed calls for people to avoid vaping until they figure out why some users are suffering serious breathing illnesses. Da Lin reports. (9-6-19)
U.S. health authorities on Friday said two Americans had died from lung illness that were possibly tied to vaping, bringing the total count of such deaths to three as officials probe whether a “cluster” of lung illnesses are linked to e-cigarette use.
Patient dies from severe respiratory illness, possibly from vaping
An Illinois patient died from a respiratory illness that could have been caused from using e-cigarettes and/or vaping.
E-cigarette explodes, rips away chunk of Cordova man’s face, breaks some teeth, lawsuit says
E-cigarettes use batteries to heat a nicotine liquid and produce a vapor. Lithium batteries in e-cigarettes can cause the devices to explode. The explosions are rare, but can lead to catastrophic injury or even death. Separately, the surgeon general’s office is campaigning to stop young people from using the popular e-cigarette devices, citing addiction and other health risks.
Twenty-five-year-old David Bishop of Cordova was at home one morning last year when he decided to use an e-cigarette before going to work. He placed the device to his lips and pressed a button to start vaping.
Suddenly, a lithium battery inside the device exploded, a lawsuit alleges. The blast blew pieces of the e-cigarette into the man’s face, breaking several teeth.
And the blast ripped away a chunk of flesh, from his upper lip through his lower left cheek, the legal filing says.
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Electric Shock Torture at Judge Rotenberg Center
When you watch the above video showing an autistic teenager being Shocked with Electricity, you can see he’s experiencing SEVERE PAIN.
The definition of Torture is; “the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something“.
It is CLEAR… the extreme agony caused by ELECTRIC SHOCK PUNISHMENT administered by staff at the Judge Rotenberg Center fits the definition of Torture AND Cruel & Unusual Punishment.
‘It’s torture’: critics step up bid to stop US school using electric shocks on children
he world’s only known school for children and young adults with special needs that inflicts electric shocks to control their behavior is facing international pressure to have the controversial practice banned. For almost three decades the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Massachusetts, outside Boston, has been zapping many of its special-needs residents with a custom-designed electric shock machine known as the GED.
Facts about Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, MA (according to various referenced articles)
– There have been at least 6 deaths at the school (details…)
– The school makes $52 million annually (details…)
– More than 240 students are at the school, and about 80 receive shocks (details…)
– A student can receive up to 5,000 shocks a day (stated in this article; (details…)
– The voltage used is up to 45.5 milliamps of electricity— over 15 times more powerful than stun belts used on incarcerated adults that deliver shocks of 3 to 4 milliamps (details…)
– JRC is the only place in the United States which uses painful electric shocks. The punishment is used on 1 in 5 of its residents, who live in group homes scattered near the center in Canton, Mass. and attend school or workshops
– JRC has been allowed to conduct its shock “therapy” for more than 40 years (details…)
– The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture condemned the Judge Rotenberg Center and determined that the rights of the center’s students who were subjected to electric shock and physical means of restraints had been “violated under the UN Convention against Torture and other international standards (details…)
WHY I CREATED THIS PAGE
I’m the parent of a mildly Autistic child. I received a petition on Apr 21, 2018 titled “FDA: Ban Torture of People with Disabilities“, demanding torture at Judge Rotenberg Center be stopped. Seeing an autistic boy close to my son’s age being tortured… screaming for help while no one helped or did anything to end the torture, enraged me. I had no idea such abuse existed in this day and age.
Click here to view the petition
This is the type of barbaric tactics you’d expect to see in a Nazi Germany concentration camp during WW II, not in the United States in the 2000’s.
According to posts on the internet, students / patients at this Institute of Horrors have been Shocked for hugging staff, swearing, nagging, getting out of seat before asking to stand up, taking off a coat, moaning, screaming, tensing up, closing eyes or raising hand… up to 30 times or more… with electric shocks more powerful than tasers.
I was not aware until I received this petition that in the United States… it’s illegal to torture prisoners and animals, but not disabled people.
My autistic son is 14. There is no way in HELL I would allow anyone to torture my son the way I have seen a boy being tortured in the video I found linked to the petition I received (copy of video posted above).
I know from first-hand experience how painful an electric shock can be. I began tinkering with electronics when I was 5 and got zapped quite a few times. The pain was more intense than any other pain I have ever experienced.
Patients who were shocked at Judge Rotenberg Center stated they would rather DIE, than experience the pain.
Doing some research, I found since at least 2012, there have been numerous articles, news segments, videos, petitions and demonstrations demanding Eletro-Shock TORTURE be banned at Judge Rotenberg Center and NOTHING has been done about it.
A petition in 2012 received over 269,000 signatures and was ignored. The petition I signed to the FDA has received over 288,072 signatures.
Gregory Miller who used to work at the Judge Rotenberg Center (and can be seen in the video at the top of this page) stated in a petition he created in 2012;
“We used powerfully painful electric shock devices (45 – 91 milliamps, at 66 volts) on students to control their behaviors. These devices are much stronger than police stun guns (1-4 milliamps). Unlike stun guns, the electrodes most commonly used at school are spaced 3 – 4 inches apart so that the electrical volts passing through the flesh create the maximum amount of pain with those amps and volts. The United Nations is aware of JRC, has called these shocks at JRC “torture”, and says that “The prohibition of torture is absolute.”
“Rather than shocking students for only severe behaviors, JRC also shocks students for minor behaviors, such as closing eyes for 15 seconds while sitting at the desk, pulling apart a loose piece of thread, tearing an empty used paper cup, going to the bathroom in one’s clothes after signing that they need to use the bathroom for over two hours, standing up and raising a hand to ask to go to the bathroom, blowing small bubbles in saliva between one’s lips, and shocking a non-verbal nearly blind girl with cerebral palsy for making a moaning sound and for attempts to hold a staff’s hand (her attempts to communicate and to be loved)”.
Click here to view the petition
It’s impossible to understand why elected and non-elected officials have allowed this inhumane activity to continue (other than if they’re paid off), when the public wants the TORTURE AT JRC TO END.
This is a prime example of Government Officials who are suppose to be “Public Servants” ignoring the voice of the people, proving they don’t give a damn what the people they are supposed to be serving want.
Judge Rotenberg Center uses lobbyists so I can’t help but wonder if politicians and those who could stop the torture are being PAID OFF and told to do nothing. This link shows their history of money paid out to lobbyists since 2010. opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000052625
Judge Rotenberg Center lobbies against seclusion and restraint bill
The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) is a special needs school which employs controversial behavior modification techiniques, including electric shock. The JRC has been the focus of much criticism for this practice, which is illegal in many (possibly most) states. Even its home state of Massachusetts has made, and continues to make, efforts to curb this…
The above article states, “Judge Rotenberg Center lobbies against seclusion and restraint bill” and has paid $16,500 to Malkin & Ross, a New York-based lobbying firm, according to lobbying reports filed with the secretary of the Senate. You can find more articles like this by searching for “Judge Rotenberg Center lobbyists”.
According to an article in Time Magazine “Where Is the Evidence that Abuse Helps Treat Autism?“, the article states “JRC has been allowed to conduct its shock “therapy” for more than four decades (40 years), with little more than anecdotes to support its effectiveness”.
A Washington Post Article stated that “JRC is the only place in the country that uses painful electric shocks”. The treatment is used on 1 in 5 of its residents, who live in group homes scattered near the center in Canton, Mass. and attend school or workshops”.
The Shocking Truth,” by Paul Kix, which appeared in Boston Magazine in 2008, describes the use of these shock aversives to punish a young girl with cerebral palsy for moaning and reaching for a staff member’s hand and as a consequence for another child who closed his eyes for more than five seconds.
Per this Huffingtonpost.com article “The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture condemned the Judge Rotenberg Center and determined that the rights of the center’s students who were subjected to electric shock and physical means of restraints had been “violated under the UN Convention against Torture and other international standards.” Also, restraining students in a facedown “prone” position to prevent them from removing the GED pack jeopardizes their physical safety, and, outside of Massachusetts, several states have banned the use of such prone facedown restraints”. Autism Shock Therapy Practiced in the United States is Torture, says a UN Official.
An article published on April 12, 2012 at boston.cbslocal.com stated; “Senate President Therese Murray is calling on voters to contact House lawmakers blocking the ban on shock therapy. She is outraged that for years the Senate has unanimously supported a ban, but the House has refused to take it up” meaning the Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo is responsible for blocking efforts to end Electric Shock Punishment Torture at JRC.
The article states; “he (Speaker Robert DeLeo) understands the horrors of watching the video of Andre McCollins being shocked at the Judge Rotenberg Center thirty times, but the Speaker is still signaling support for the Judge Rotenberg Center”.
Massachusetts Senate President Therese Murray described why she is so passionate against this procedure to us today. She says, “This is painful. The UN has come out and said that this is torture. How do we torture people who are disabled, who have a mental illness or are having psychotic episodes? It’s just wrong.” She says it’s time for the full legislature to take action”.
The FDA Still Allows Shock “Therapy” For Disabled Kids, These People Want To Change That
In 2018 it is still legal to subject children and adults with disabilities to electric shock. It’s a horrific human rights abuse, and for the past 12 days, members of ADAPT, a national grassroots group of disability rights activists, have been…
According to the article above, as of Mar 23, 2018 is it still legal to subject children and adults with disabilities to electric shock.
I think ANYONE who defends or condones Judge Rotenberg Center use of Electric Shocks on autistic & disabled people should allow themselves to get hooked up and shocked up to 30 times at maximum strength, THEN let’s see if they STILL defend JRC’s methods and if they think it isn’t torture.
If it were discovered that personnel in our government engaged in interrogation tactics using the same Electric Shock methods as those at the Judge Rotenberg Center, there would be a HUGE outcry about it and those responsible would likely be prosecuted and imprisoned.
The fact that such tactics ARE illegal makes it all the more of an outrage that government officials has turned a blind eye and done NOTHING to stop this abuse.
How can ANYONE in a position of power in Massachusetts look at the videos which have been posted on Youtube since 2012 and not feel outrage?
How could those in a positions of power allow abuse & torture of human beings to continue for over 40 years?
Why do those who could end this TORTURE not take IMMEDIATE action and do what ever it takes to help people seen in these video screaming for help from the pain they are enduring & DO NOTHING & allow the pain and suffering to continue, day after day… year after year?
TAKE ACTION!
– Contact the office of the FDA Commissioner at (301) 796-5000
Tell them what you think about the videos on this page showing people being tortured with electric shocks. Tell them to visit this page and view the videos for themselves – Businessreporter.net/torture
– Send tweets (and letters) to the FDA Commissioner, Scott Gottlieb at @SGottliebFDA and the FDA at @US_FDA & #FDA
Mr. Scott Gottlieb
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
10903 New Hampshire Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20993
FAX: 301-443-2143
Twitter: @SGottliebFDA
Twitter: @US_FDA
Twitter: #FDA
NOTE: You can fax letters from your computer using these free services;
faxzero.com
myfax.com/free
gotfreefax.com
United States Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20530
Since Torture AND Cruel & Unusual Punishment are supposed to be illegal in the United States, I’m filing a complaint to the United States Department of Justice referencing the petition & videos posted on this page at Businessreporter.net/torture.
You can also file complaints to the United States Department of Justice.
– Send tweets, letters and call the Massachusetts Governor, Charlie Baker.
Governor Charlie Baker
State House, Room 360
Boston, MA 02133
Phone: (617) 725-4005
Fax: 617/727-9725
Twitter: @MassGovernor
NOTE: On April 25, 2018 I sent a letter asking Governor Charlie Baker; “Will you take action to put an END to the torture which has been occurring in your State for over 40 years?”
As of today’s date [current_date format=’F d, Y’], Mr. Baker has not responded.
– Send tweets to the following Massachusetts Senators / House Reps
Senator Harriette Chandler
President of the Massachusetts Senate
Capitol 24 Beacon Street, Room 333
Boston, MA 02133
Phone: 617-722-1544
Fax: 617-722-1357
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @Sen_Chandler
Senator Marc R. Pacheco
President Pro Tempore of the Massachusetts State Senate
Capitol 24 Beacon Street, Room 312B
Boston, MA 02133
Phone: 617-722-1551
Fax: 617-722-1074
Twitter: @MarcRPacheco
Senator Bruce E. Tarr
Minority leader of the Massachusetts Senate
Capitol 24 Beacon Street, Room 308
Boston, MA 02133
Phone: 617-722-1600
Fax: 617-722-1310
Email [email protected]
Twitter: @SenBruceTarr
Representative Robert A. DeLeo
Use MyLegislature to follow bills, hearings, and legislators that interest you.
*Representative Robert A. DeLeo
Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives,
24 Beacon Street, Room 356
Boston, MA, 02133
Phone: 617-722-2500
Fax: 617-570-5705
Twitter: @SpeakerDeLeo
According to posts I found on the internet and the video at the top of this page, the MA House of Representatives led by House Speaker Robert DeLeo has repeatedly stopped attempts to make Electric Shock Torture Illegal.
An article published on April 12, 2012 at boston.cbslocal.com confirms the claims… it states “he understands the horrors of watching the video of Andre McCollins being shocked at the Judge Rotenberg Center thirty times, but the Speaker is still signaling support for the Judge Rotenberg Center”.
On April 30, 2018 I faxed a letter to Mr. DeLeo and stated:
“I’m writing to you to give you the opportunity to explain why you have repeatedly stopped attempts to end Electric Shock Punishment at Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, MA. Your response or lack of response will be so noted in the article”.
As of today’s date [current_date format=’F d, Y’], Mr. DeLeo has not responded.
In my opinion, any “public servant” politician who refuses to do what the citizens (who pay their salaries) want is UNFIT to serve in ANY position in government.
I think DeLeo should be VOTED OUT OF OFFICE and ads should be ran exposing how Mr DeLeo has blocked efforts for years, to end shock punishment at JRC.
Call, send tweets and fax letters asking Mr. DeLeo why he’s BLOCKED all efforts to end Electric Shock Torture at Judge Rotenberg Center.
Websites which shows where Robert A. DeLeo’s Campaign Contributions are coming from;
votesmart.org/candidate/campaign-finance/4792/robert-deleo#.WuHkQ39G3Qx
followthemoney.org/show-me?c-t-eid=491983
Disabled Persons Protection Commission
I found an agency in Massachusetts called The Disabled Persons Protection Commission. It seems after all these years and all of the exposure JRC has gotten, The Disabled Persons Protection Commission should have taken action to stop Judge Rotenberg Center from perpetrating Electro-Shock Torture Punishment against Disabled and Autistic persons.
On May 1, 2018 I faxed a letter to The Disabled Persons Protection Commission about this matter. As of today’s date [current_date format=’F d, Y’], The Disabled Persons Protection Commission has not responded.
If you’d like to contact them about this matter, here’s their contact info;
The Disabled Persons Protection Commission (DPPC)
300 Granite Street, Suite 404
Braintree, MA 02184
Phone: 617-727-6465
888-822-0350 V/TTY
Fax: 617-727-6469
List Of All Massachusetts Legislators Email Addresses – Click here to view list
Send Tweets to MSNBC & CNN Personalities such as;
@AMJoy @JoyAnnReid #AMJoy #JoyAnnReid @chrislhayes #chrislhayes @TheLastWord #TheLastWord @maddow @RachelMaddow #maddow #RachelMaddow @andersoncooper @AC360 #andersoncooper #ac360 @DrewGriffinCNN #DrewGriffinCNN Email: [email protected] , Dr. Sanjay Gupta @drsanjaygupta @SanjayGuptaCNN #drsanjaygupta #SanjayGuptaCNN
The only thing which will put a stop to the torture is for people to make lots of noise about this and NEVER let up until the torture is banned.
#StopTheShock
WORKER AT JUDGE ROTENBERG CENTER SPEAKS OUT
Greg Miller, who was staff member at Judge Rotenberg Center and appears in the video posted at the top of this page posted this article on Youtube about his experiences;
“I worked at JRC for three years, under the mistake of thinking that some students’ behaviors were so severe that they needed GED-shocks, even to the point of causing my students bloody and scabby burns with the GED-shock devices. The truth is that the students at the JRC are NOT unique to the rest of the world. Other people with similar disabilities of equal severity exist all around the world, yet JRC is the only place that specializes in pain and torture. (Yes, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture has studied the methods used at the JRC and has called the methods violations of the United Nations Bill of Human Rights treaty), meaning that the USA is violating world-wide treaty agreements to which we agreed right after World War II, by allowing the JRC to continue using its shocks and restraints.
After leaving JRC, I worked at another school serving students with very similar severe behaviors as the lower functioning students at JRC. The other school used NO pain, no drugs, no punishment & rewards model. Yet we saw major improvements in behaviors by providing truly positive approaches. JRC claims to try positive approaches with their students prior to getting court approval to use GED-shocks on its students. I worked extensively with these students receiving JRC’s so-called positive methods, and they were nothing more than an application of their punishments and rewards model to earn them dried fruit, sesame seeds, or the right to put one’s head down to rest on the hard table for a few minutes, or to play video games for a few minutes, and so on. That would have never worked either in the other school where I worked that used true positive methods.
The point is that other methods exist and are used around the world for the same types of severe behaviors and that do not require the shocks, or extensive use of restraints, to control student behaviors. There is no valid “other side” to JRC’s arguments. Prior to using electric shocks, JRC and its founder used hitting, slapping, repeated pinching with long thumbnails grown out, ammonia salts up the nose to create the sensation of suffocation, extremely hot pepper in the mouth to cause burning, among other methods even more severe, and which caused terrible bruising and even open wounds, according to staff who protested the abuse back then. The matter of fact is that the founder of JRC was a sadist who got away with getting paid $220,000 per year per student to enjoy himself. I believe that the reason why parents of students still at JRC are advocating for that school is 1)
They have not seen on video THEIR child getting “treated” as Andre McCollins was “treated” as seen above (yet is the norm for many students, minus landing in a catatonic state in the hospital); and 2)There is an awful deficit in the field of mental health care where poor quality schools rely on psychiatric drugs to control student behaviors (as chemical restraints) rather than learning and providing effective teaching and management techniques. There is much profit to be made in some of these schools and group homes, at the expense of failing to actually provide what the students need. Students arrived at JRC after their parents put them in several very poor programs, which created a desperation in these parents on which JRC was very ready to make profit.
Please do not spread any more “other side of the story” messages because saying that the students at JRC are somehow unique in this world and therefore deserve to be tortured is simply erroneous and misleading”.
https://althealthworks.com/9921/i-just-wanted-to-die-kids-with-autism-are-being-treated-with-controversial-shock-therapyyelena/
Drawing from one of the students at Judge Rotenberg Center shows her opinion of the shock therapy abuse she endured: “They did this to many, many students while I was there. I watched them suffer too.”
Per the articles on the internet “The students wear a backpack for up to 24 hours a day that has the GED device with electrodes attached to it”.
Autistic woman sues education centre for electric shock therapy
Jennifer Msumba suing Judge Rotenberg Center following shock therapy Centre says it uses treatment to stop aggressive or self-harming behaviour School came under scrutiny two years ago when video emerged showing teenage boy being tied up and given 31 electric shocks A former student at a controversial special needs school is suing the center after she was given painful electrical shocks in a bid to alter her behaviour.
Extended interview with Jennifer Msumba who was shocked repeatedly by staff at Judge Rotenberg Center
Anna Werner interviews Jennifer Msumba, a former student at the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Mass. Ms. Msumba talks about what it was like inside the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Mass
Msumba is suing JRC and testified before the FDA that shock devices should be banned.
LAWSUIT AGAINST JUDGE ROTENBERG CENTER
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Almost ten years after Andre McCollins was restrained facedown for seven hours and shocked 31 times over that interval while attending the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JRC) in Canton, Massachusetts, a lawsuit was filed by Andre McCollins’s mother, Cheryl McCollins against the program and some of its most important staff for abuses. The case is called “McCollins guardian v. Von Heyn et al”.
The above 11 part videos and article below gives details about the case.
The Judge Rotenberg Center on Trial, Part One – Autistic Self Advocacy Network
by Shain NeumeierAlmost ten years after Andre McCollins was restrained facedown for seven hours and shocked 31 times over that interval while attending the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JRC) in Canton, Massachusetts, the lawsuit against the program and some of its most important staff for these abuses, McCollins guardian v….
FDA Bans Shock Device Used On Patients At Judge Rotenberg Center In Canton
CBS Boston WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal officials on Wednesday banned electrical shock devices used to discourage aggressive, self-harming behavior in patients with mental disabilities. The announcement from the Food and Drug Administration follows years of pressure from disability rights groups and mental health experts who have called the treatment outdated, ineffective and unethical.
March 2020 UPDATE: On March 9, 2020 the FDA Banned Shock Device Used On Patients At Judge Rotenberg Center In Canton
School wins legal battle to electric shock children to ‘correct behaviour’
A federal court of appeals ruled on Tuesday that a Massachusetts school for children with disabilities can continue administering electric shocks to its students. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had previously banned the electric shock treatment used at the Judge Rotenberg Center, Canton.
July 08, 2021 UPDATE: The Judge Rotenberg Center for children filed a LAWSUIT to overturn the FDA’S ban. A Federal Court of Appeals ruled that this “school” for children with disabilities can continue TORTURING students with Electric Shocks.
This is just another example of why the UNITED STATES SUCKS! This barbaric form of TORTURE is banned in every other country on this planet, but NOT HERE. Although it hasn’t been used in years, the United States STILL has laws on the books allowing ELECTROCUTIONS for the Death Penalty, where people have been literally BURNT ALIVE with electricity… worse than how they used to burn people alive at stakes. Again, the last country on this planet where such unspeakable, barbaric punishment is legal.
There have been several petitions signed by thousand of people demanding torture at Judge Rotenberg Center be banned.
Sign the Petition
At a “special needs school” in Canton, Massachusetts, children and teenagers with autism and other disabilities are being administered electric shocks as a means of controlling their behaviors. As a former Teacher’s Assistant, I regret having participated firsthand at this school – The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC).
The above petition created in 2012 received 269,762 signatures
Sign the Petition
The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in Canton, Massachusetts is a “treatment center” that uses their own, non-FDA approved electric shock devices on disabled people, primarily autistic people with and without intellectual disabilities, as a way of controlling their behavior. Children and adults at the JRC wear shock devices all day and staff of the facility deliver painful electric shocks remotely.
The above petition created in 2018 has received over 267,223 signatures
ARTICLES
UN Calls Shock Treatment at Mass. School ‘Torture’
The Boston-area’s Judge Rotenberg Center educates and treats children ages three to adult, all of whom are struggling with severe emotional, behavior, and psychiatric problems, including autism-like disorders. And for about half of the 250 students here, undesirable behavior means getting hooked up to a special machine and administered an electric shock.
http://www.patriotledger.com/news/20170622/state-finds-abuse-seeks-changes-at-judge-rotenberg-center
Advocates hope FDA will ban electric shock devices used at Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton
The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JRC), a special needs day and residential school in Canton, has been widely criticized for its use of electric shocks on students. In April, the FDA proposed banning “electrical stimulation devices used to treat self-injurious or aggressive behavior.”
New York to pull students from the Judge Rotenberg Center?
The press release below was just forwarded to me. New York City Councilmember Vincent Gentile is calling for students from the city (roughly 1/2 of the total) at the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) to be pulled from the school. The JRC is facing other pressures, including losing medicaid funding for students in their care.
Abuse is Not the Answer: Shut Down the Judge Rotenberg Center
In October, the national disability advocacy organization ADAPT organized a protest in front of the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Mass. over the center’s use of aversive electric skin shocks on students in its care. More than 100 people came out to demand that the center stop the practice.
ADAPT Demands the FDA to Stop Shocking Disabled People into Submission
03/09/18 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – ACTION HAPPENING NOW For More Information: Mike Oxford: (785) 224-3865 Cal Montgomery: (312) 813-6816 (text only) Priya Penner: (585) 944-3086 Marilee Adamski-Smith: (715) 204-4152 WHO: National ADAPT WHAT: ADAPT Demands the FDA to Stop Shocking Disabled People into Submission WHERE: In front of FDA Director Scott Gottlieb’s house, Pennsylvania Ave NW & L St NW, Washington DC 20037 WHEN: Friday, March 9, 2018, happening now DISABILITY RIGHTS GROUP DEMANDS THE FDA ISSUE LONG-DELAYED REGULATIONS 03/09/2018 – Washington, D.C.
Taser shock disrupts brain function, has implications for police interrogations
In a randomized control trial, volunteer participants were subjected to Taser shocks and tested for cognitive impairment. Some showed short-term declines in cognitive functioning comparable to dementia, raising serious questions about the ability of police suspects to understand their rights at the point of arrest.
Founder Forced To Leave Controversial Special Needs School
The psychologist who founded a controversial center for treating children and adults with difficult behavioral problems has been ordered to resign. Prosecutors accused Matthew Israel of interfering with an investigation of the Judge Rotenberg Center. The center, based in Canton, is one of the only institutions in the country that uses skin shock treatments to control behavior.
MORE INFO / LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Autistic hoya’s Page about Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Mass – autistichoya.com/p/judge-rotenberg-center-resources.html
OccupyJRC.org (NOTE: OccupyJRC.org is no longer active but you can still view it by clicking this link )
Facebook page for OccupyJRC; https://www.facebook.com/pg/OccupyJRC
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Aspen Dental Ocala Review Complaint
I called Aspen Dental in Ocala, FL and asked how much they would charge for a Crown for my Molar. They told me I would have to come into the office so they could take a look. They said nothing about charging me anything when they made the appointment.
On 1-10-18, I went to the office at 4910 E Silver Springs Blvd, Ocala, FL 34470. To my shock & surprise, they said I’d have to pay $140 before they could tell me how much a crown would cost, so I paid the $140, hoping their price would be reasonable.
They took an ex-ray and the Dentist then told me it would be $1,700!
I think $1,700 an outrageous sum for a crown and is a total rip-off. The last crown I got in 2010 cost me about $600 which seemed extremely high then.
Action 9 investigates Aspen Dental’s free exam
Here’s the Average Cost & Price of Crowns and Bridges in Ocala Florida
| Dental Service | Average Fee June 1, 2017 | Highest Fee June 1, 2017 (95th percentile) |
| Porcelain on non-precious metal crown | $950.54 | $1202.72 |
| All metal crown (not gold) | $950.54 | $1202.72 |
| Cast Gold Crown | $1176.13 | $1393.47 |
| Porcelain on gold crown | $1229.32 | $1550.28 |
SOURCE: https://www.bracesinfo.com/dentalcosts/us/fl/ocala/crowns-bridges.html
Ocala Florida Crowns and Bridges Costs, Dental Crowns and Bridges …
As you can see, Aspen Dental’s price is by far the highest.
There’s no excuse for them not telling me how much a crown would cost over the phone.
2-15-18 UPDATE: I filed a complaint to the BBB and Aspen Dental give me a refund so I’m satisfied with their response and settlement of my complaint
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