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Excited Delirium and Cocaine Overdose
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A study found that the blood level of cocaine in those who died from excited delirium was similar to recreational users but lower than those who died from cocaine intoxication. Excited delirium deaths are disproportionately black, linked to police use of force, and often caused by a combination of a psychiatric disorder and cocaine-induced psychosis.
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The study found that excited delirium deaths due to cocaine overdose are overwhelmingly black, involve police use of force, and have much less cocaine in their systems than the people who are just dying of cocaine.
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The study found that excited delirium deaths due to cocaine overdose are overwhelmingly black, involve police use of force, and have much less cocaine in their systems than the people who are just dying of cocaine. Black excited delirium cocaine overdose deaths were also noted to be nearly all black people who had been restrained by law enforcement before their death.
ChapterExcited Delirium and Cocaine Overdose
EpisodePart One: Excited Delirium: How Cops Invented A Disease
PodcastBehind the Bastards
Blood levels of cocaine in those who experienced excited delirium were similar to levels found in recreational users and lower than levels found in those who died from cocaine intoxication.
18:02 - 22:19 (04:16)
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Blood levels of cocaine in those who experienced excited delirium were similar to levels found in recreational users and lower than levels found in those who died from cocaine intoxication. Excited delirium can be caused by either psychiatric disorder or cocaine induced psychosis, however, in Miami, some deaths were blamed on cocaine overdose when they were actually excited delirium deaths.