Parents are not being warned about the dangers of an asthma drug linked to dozens of suicides, hallucinations and self-harm, doctors and patients say.The Food and Drug Administration () added a black box warning to the label of Singulair, generic name montelukast, in March 2020 following decades of reports of mental health problems among users.The black box warning was primarily for doctors prescribing the drug who are supposed to relay it to patients. But nearly two years later, data shows prescriptions of the drug have barely changed — with 12million written in 2022, including nearly 1.6million for children.
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