In 2002, not long before Marcus came to the hospital, the Bennett Inquiry had been commissioned. It followed the death of David Bennett, an African-Caribbean man, who died after being restrained by staff at a medium- secure unit. The report found that black men were generally regarded by staff in psychiatric hospitals as ‘more aggressive, more alarming, more dangerous and more difficult to treat’ and that they tended to receive higher doses of medication than white people given similar diagnoses. It concluded that people from black and minority ethnic communities were six times more likely to
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