Excited delirium

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Excited delirium (ExDS), also known as agitated delirium (AgDS), is a widely rejected pseudoscientific diagnosis characterized as a potentially fatal state of extreme agitation and delirium. It has disproportionately been diagnosed postmortem in black men who were physically restrained by law enforcement personnel at the time of death. Mainstream medicine does not recognise the label as a diagnosis. It is not listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or the International Classification of Diseases, and is not recognized by the World Health Organization, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, or the National Association of Medical Examiners. The American College of Emergency Physicians, which was an outlier in supporting the diagnosis, changed its position in 2023, stating: The term excited delirium should not be used among the wider medical and public health community, law enforcement...

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