While US Congress debates on waterboarding…US Mental Health system tortures with shock!
People have a fascination with electricity these days. Who hasn’t laughed at the drunk getting tazered for being obnoxious. We are then horrified, at least some people are, with the idea of waterboarding enemy prisoners. Most captives survive physically with the “near drowning” experience of waterboarding, at least that’s the argument that it’s not harmful. This isn’t the case here in our own US Borders under today’s mental health system. This article in Mother Jones details the use of electric-shock as an aversion therapy. While most survive the incidents of these shocks, some live with long-term emotional scars from the abuse. Is this the best that psychaitry can come up with in treating mentally handicapped, autistic, and emotionally troubled kids? Any nurse who would support such therapies should turn in their license. You have violated your Nurses Code of Ethics at it’s core. Read this article and then sign the petition below:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/NrseCall2Arms/