‘I feel like a drug dealer’: the parents using black-market melatonin to help their children sleep
- Posted on June 15, 2025
- By The Guardian
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‘I feel like a drug dealer’: the parents using black-market melatonin to help their children sleep

Desperate dads meet in car parks to exchange packets; exhausted parents slip it into their kids’ drinks; families waiting months for prescriptions buy it ‘off label’. But is it worth the risk?