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• n  the administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma

• Then came state-run hospitals that Leifman refers to as "horror houses" given that patients were usually either neglected or abused experiments involving drugs and electroshock .
• By 1987, she had already been kidnapped, presumed dead, stalked by a strangler, mistakenly subjected to electroshock therapy and sent into a two-month coma after falling off a .
• They advocated using water torture and electroshock.

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News & Articles

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• Healthy respect: Knowledge reduced need to use Tasers, police say
  People know police carry electroshock weapons, such as Tasers, and that knowledge lessens the need to use them, a Monroe Police Department spokesman says.
  June 9, 2013 - The News-Star