A mother of three seeking treatment for schizophrenia was sedated four times by medical staff before she died from a drug overdose, an inquest has been told.

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NT Coroner Elisabeth Armitage is inquiring into the death of Kumunjayi Brogus, 34, on November 23, 2023.

Counsel assisting Sandra Wendlandt said Ms Brogus was "in the grip of a psychotic episode" in the days before she died in Alice Springs Hospital.

"It was where she wanted to go, to get better,'' she said.

"She did the right thing, along with her family, to … get medical help so that she could feel better."

Ms Brogus had attended the Ntaria health clinic at Hermannsburg community,

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