When excited deliriants are characterized as "irrational," "drug users," without "remorse" or "normal fear and understanding of surroundings" and "persons with psychiatric illness," there is little space for recognition of police use of force.
Similarly, "unusual strength" is regularly included in the symptom cluster of excited delirium (e.g., ACEP 2009:7), which fits in with the consistent observation that arrests of excited deliriants require use of police force.
This PSYNDEX score consisted of three factors: (a) the number of psychedelic drugs (1 to 6) subtracting the number of nonpsychedelic drugs (1 to 9) while omitting six "semipsychedelic" drugs (such as
deliriants and minor psychedelics), alcohol and tobacco; (b) autognostic drug use purposes (0 to 3) subtracting general drug use purposes (0 to 3) for each psychedelic drug; and (c) importance of the experience (0 to 4) multiplied by the life effects of the experience (-2 to 2), for each psychedelic drug.