The term ‘excited delirium’ has been associated with a number of recent high-profile deaths in law enforcement custody. George Floyd, Tommy McGlothen, Eric Parsa, and for Ronald Greene, the Union ...

"My elderly mom was admitted to a nursing home a couple weeks ago, and now seems to be hallucinating on and off, especially at night," a patient asked recently. "She has never had any mental illness.

California has enacted a first-of-its-kind law banning the medical and legal use of “excited delirium,” a term often cited as a cause of death that many experts believe is racially motivated and used ...

Bella Quinto-Collins was celebrating her 21st birthday with her family on Sunday when she got the news they'd all been waiting for: California had just become the first state to ban “excited delirium” ...

DENVER — Colorado’s coroners appear ready to ditch use of a controversial term after one of the leading societies in the field of death investigations ditched use of the term itself. The term “excited ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: And as we just heard, black victims in the United States are less likely to be believed when reporting cases of sexual violence, and sadly, this racism ...

SACRAMENTO — California is the first state to ban doctors and medical examiners from attributing deaths to the controversial diagnosis known as “excited delirium,” which a human rights activist hailed ...

In 2019, a 23-year-old, slightly built man with autism spectrum disorder went to an Aurora, Colorado convenience store to buy a drink. Elijah McClain was wearing a ski-type mask—an odd choice for ...

George Floyd. Angelo Quinto. Elijah McClain. All three men were killed by lethal force inflicted by the police, and all three deaths were initially blamed on something called “excited delirium.” For ...

If you are starting to notice cognitive changes in your parents or aging loved ones, you might want to educate yourself on the differences between delirium and dementia. As our county ages, a paradigm ...