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Rep. Leslie Herod’s bill is a response to the death of Elijah McClain and comes after KUNC revealed more than 900 ketamine sedations for excited or agitated people around the state in 2.5 years.
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"They sound like they want to give him ketamine to control his behavior as opposed to treat excited delirium syndrome," said one doctor who reviewed police video.
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The Colorado Sun's Jennifer Brown hosts a discussion on KUNC’s investigative work into the use of ketamine during encounters with law enforcement. KUNC reporters Michael de Yoanna and Rae Solomon provide a behind-the-scenes overview of the investigation and answered viewers' questions on this issue.
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Paramedics unnecessarily sedated hundreds of people with ketamine during confrontations with police officers in Colorado, exposing them to potentially life-threatening complications associated with the drug. That’s according to an estimate from Dr. Mark DeBard, a professor emeritus of emergency medicine at Ohio State University and expert in cases of “excited delirium.”
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On Saturday, the state's top public health official announced a “thorough review” of the system that allows medics to sedate people in confrontations with police. This week, an architect of Colorado’s sweeping law enforcement reform bill is hinting at further action, at the same time citizens are pushing the state to pause its ketamine waiver program.
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A growing number of people want Colorado officials to pause or ban medics from using ketamine on people during escalated confrontations with police. The list includes two men who were given the powerful anesthetic when medics and police decided they showed signs of “excited delirium” or extreme “agitation.”
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The parents of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after officers in Aurora stopped him on the street last year and put him in a chokehold, sued police and medical officials Tuesday.
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More than 100 agencies across Colorado have approval from the state to allow medics to use ketamine, an anesthetic, on people who show signs of what's often dubbed "excited delirium," a practice that is now drawing national criticism from anesthesiologists and psychiatrists.
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Commonly used antidepressants don't work for many people. That's why scientists are experimenting with ketamine, a hallucinogenic club drug called Special K.
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There's more evidence that the anesthetic ketamine, sometimes abused as a club drug, has potential as a fast-acting treatment for depression. But patients relapse quickly after treatment with the drug.