2025-scheduled medical guidance update on "excited delirium" accelerated due to changing attitudes, with Colorado, California bans and UK's IOPC removal from incident forms.

Medical guidance on "excited delirium," a term linked to police custody deaths, is set to be updated earlier than its 2025 schedule due to changing attitudes. Colorado and California have banned its use, and the UK's Independent Office of Police Conduct has removed it from incident forms. No reliable medical basis has been found for the term, which was coined in the 1980s.

May 15, 2024
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