DENVER — Aspiring law enforcement officers in Colorado will no longer receive state-mandated “excited delirium” training after a unanimous vote by the board that sets the standards for officers all ...

LARGO, Fla. — Content warning: This story includes descriptions, images and videos of police using force on people who were struggling with their mental health and/or drug use. New state training is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DENVER (KDVR) — The Colorado Senate voted Monday to pass legislation that would bar the term “excited delirium” from use by first ...

DENVER — Colorado is one step away from becoming only the second state in the country to ban use of the controversial term “excited delirium” in police training manuals and autopsy reports. The ...

Now, lawmakers in Colorado, Hawaii, Minnesota, and New York are considering bills that also would rein in how the excited delirium concept is used. Following a pivotal year in the movement to discard ...

Loan Ngyuen tries her best to steer her nine-year-old son from logging on to Google and typing in his last name. She knows what he will find. He will find articles about his dad, a lot of them. The ...

In November 2022, Abdullah Darwich, a nonverbal autistic 19-year-old left his home in Mississauga, Ont. He made his way to a pile of leaves, which he began playing in, dressed only in his underwear. A ...

Following a pivotal year in the movement to discard the term “excited delirium,” momentum is building in several states to ban the discredited medical diagnosis from death certificates, law ...

When Angelo Quinto’s family learned that officials blamed his 2020 death on “excited delirium,” a term they had never heard before, they couldn’t believe it. To them, it was obvious the science behind ...

Bella Quinto-Collins was celebrating her 21st birthday with her family on Sunday when she got the news they'd all been waiting for: California had just become the first state to ban “excited delirium” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. — This story first appeared in New York Focus, a non-profit news publication investigating New ...

Critics have highlighted the ‘lack of evidence that this is an actual medical syndrome’ and condoned the ‘junk science’ excuse of ‘police brutality resulting in death.’ By Renuka Rayasam / KFF Health ...