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The FDA warned an asthma drug could induce despair. Many were never told.

Children face the greatest risks of the drug’s ill effects.

(Niki Chan Wylie | The New York Times) Ashley Bracken and one of her other daughters, Juliet, visit the grave of Genevieve, who died by suicide at the age of 14, in Smithfield, Utah on April 29, 2023. Genevieve had been on the medication montelukast since age 7 and grew increasingly depressed after a doctor increased her dose to the adult level in April 2021, when she was 13.

(Niki Chan Wylie | The New York Times) Ashley Bracken and one of her other daughters, Juliet, visit the grave of Genevieve, who died by suicide at the age of 14, in Smithfield, Utah on April 29, 2023. Genevieve had been on the medication montelukast since age 7 and grew increasingly depressed after a doctor increased her dose to the adult level in April 2021, when she was 13.

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