“Excited delirium”: can the world lose this controversial term, which is accused of covering up deaths in police custody?
When George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis in May 2020, the circumstances of…
Category: Emergency medicine, Psychiatry
We should push for non-police alternatives to mental health crisis response
In May 2023 the Metropolitan Police commissioner, Mark Rowley, wrote a letter to health and…
Excited delirium: what’s the evidence for its use in medicine?
Its close association with police enforcement has left the term “excited delirium” shrouded in controversy….