In the absence of a plan, officials have turned to shock treatment.

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We learn of his mother, Renee, who, by the time she bore Jonathan, in the early nineteen-seventies, had already suffered electric-shock treatment and a violent marriage.

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Through a blend of photographs and aging footage, we watch the lanky boy grow taller but never wider, and learn with horror of the electric-shock treatment administered to him in his youth.

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An innocent woman hauled off for electric shock treatment, stolen children butchered by an ax murderer, a mom confronting the killer -- even in Eastwood's sober accounting, this makes for heavy-duty melodrama.

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You want shock treatment.

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"Another death involved a 10-month-old infant who presented with septic shock following treatment with homeopathic medicines and dietary restriction for chronic eczema, " the authors say.

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He said he felt "shock, anger, dismay and deep regret" about the treatment of vulnerable people with severe learning disabilities at Winterbourne View.

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But two recent studies, including one in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association and one in the British Medical Journal, found that heel patients who received shock wave therapy did no better than patients who received a fake treatment.

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At present, the most common treatment is to administer a massive (and painful) electric shock.

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They found these rodents were more quick to recover from shock and less likely to die than rats that did not receive this treatment.

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