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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

Mad in America

About twenty years ago in 2005, I was 22 years old and in severe distress. A bill raised in the Connecticut legislature, H.B. 6837 , would change state law concerning shock therapy (ECT or electroconvulsive therapy). The bill would also increase the maximum duration of patients written consent from 30 days to 90 days. Anwar , Rep.