California bans controversial 'excited delirium' diagnosis; is first state to do so

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https://www.ocregister.com/2023/10/15/california-bans-controversial-excited-delirium-diagnosis/

A human rights activist hailed the decision as a “watershed moment” that could make it harder for police to justify excessive force.

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 as a “watershed moment” that could make it harder for police to justify excessive force.

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Oct. 8 to prohibit coroners, medical examiners, physicians, or physician assistants from listing excited delirium on a person’s death certificate or in an autopsy report. Law enforcement won’t be allowed to use the term to describe a person’s behavior in any incident report, and testimony that refers to excited delirium won’t be allowed in civil court. The law takes effect in January.

Good.

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1. Has that been used by cops or said to have been the state of the diseased?

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3. Please see reply two. I accidentally replied to myself.

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2. Both is my understanding.

If cops say that's why a person was restrained to death, in some cases the medical examiner has used it as cause of death.