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Calls for ‘barbaric’ treatment of autistic patients to end

Sky, 20 Jan 2022
Author Alexis Quinn and MP Sir Robert Buckland have called for an end to autism treatments that see individuals 'caged'.

Quinn, who is autistic, shared how she 'had to escape' from a mental health hospital after hearing she would be sectioned for another year following a three year stay in the facility.

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