Disability Advocates Camp Outside Gottlieb Residence, Demand Electroshock Ban

Several dozen protesters with the disability advocacy group ADAPT have camped outside of the condominium of FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb since Friday, March 9, demanding the commissioner finalize a regulation, proposed in 2016, that would ban the use of electric shock devices to modify behavior in people with disabilities. ADAPT advocates may be waiting in the cold a while longer. FDA spokeswoman Stephanie Caccomo wrote to Inside Health Policy , saying, “We are only noting that the FDA is working...