Tag: Excited delirium banned US

NEW DELHI: California has become the first US state to prohibit the official classification of "excited delirium" as a cause of death. An increasing number of physicians and medical associations have distanced themselves from this diagnosis, asserting its lack of scientific or medical credibility. The term has frequently been applied to explain the deaths of individuals from diverse racial backgrounds, thereby introducing a racial aspect to this controversial diagnosis. Assembly member Mike Gipson, the legislator behind the bill to ban the term, emphasized “The only place where this...