End “Excited Delirium”
Resources
Reports
U.S. Medical Association Statements
American Psychiatric Association
American Academy of Emergency Medicine
College of American Pathologists
National Association of Medical Examiners
American College of Medical Toxicologists
American College of Emergency Physicians
International Medical Association Statements
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Academic Articles
Kenneth Weiss and Cristina Lanzillotta, “The Case Against ‘Excited Delirium,’ The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, May 2023: https://journals.lww.com/jonmd/Abstract/2023/05000/The_Case_Against__Excited_Delirium_.1.aspx
Brooks Walsh, Isaac Agboola, Edouard Coupet Jr., John Rozel, Ambrose Wong, “Revisiting ‘Excited Delirium’: Does the Diagnosis Reflect and Promote Racial Bias?” Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, March 2023: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8b27k859
Kevin Fiscella, Debra Pinals, Cleveland Shields, “‘Excited delirium,’ erroneous concepts, dehumanizing language, false narratives, and threat to Black lives,” Academic Emergency Medicine, July 2022, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35286005
Paul Appelbaum, “Excited Delirium, Ketamine, and Deaths in Police Custody,” Law & Psychiatry, May 11, 2022: https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/epdf/10.1176/appi.ps.20220204
Altaf Saadi, Joanna Naples-Mitchell, Brianna da Silva Bhatia, Michele Heisler, “End the use of ‘excited delirium’ as a cause of death in police custody,” The Lancet, March 2, 2022: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00410-X/fulltext
Osagie Obasogie, “Excited Delirium and Police Use of Force,” Virginia Law Review, December 2021: https://www.virginialawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Obasogie_Book_107.pdf
Ellen Strömmer, Wendy Leith, Maurice Zeegers, Michael Freeman, “The role of restraint in fatal excited delirium: a research synthesis and pooled analysis,” Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology, December 2020: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32827300
Police Department Policies
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Police Department
Legislation
Family Advocacy
Podcasts
“I’m So Excited – But Don’t Call It Excited Delirium,” SGEM XTRA, May 6, 2023: https://thesgem.com/2023/05/sgem-xtra-im-so-excited-but-dont-call-it-excited-delirium
“Travon Unravels the Racist Roots of Excited Delirium,” The Untold Story, October 25, 2022: https://omny.fm/shows/the-untold-story-policing-1/travon-unravels-the-racist-roots-of-excited-deliri
“Bonus: Two physicians on excited delirium,” Stat News (Color Code Podcast), May 23, 2022: https://soundcloud.com/stat-color-code/bonus-two-physicians-on-excited-delirium
Nicholas St. Fleur, “A ‘city on fire’: How Miami shaped a disputed diagnosis used to justify deaths in police custody,” Stat News (Color Code Podcast), May 16, 2022: https://www.statnews.com/2022/05/16/excited-delirium-roots-of-disputed-diagnosis-used-to-justify-deaths-in-police-custody
Documentaries
Richard Burns: Exposed: Last Writes