Norman, 31, told the Sunday Mirror: "I've spoken to soldiers deployed to Mali in the past year who were all prescribed
Lariam without being offered an alternative.
While
Lariam is not the main antimalarial drug used by the armed forces, at least 17,368 personnel were prescribed it at least once between the start of April 2007 and the end of March 2015, according to official MoD figures.
Internal documents from Roche, obtained by UPI in 2002, indicated that the pharmaceutical company had been tracking suicidal reactions to
Lariam going back to the early 1990s.
Possible long-term health effects from the malarial prophylaxis mefloquine (
lariam).
In regions with chloroquine-resistant plasmodia, treatment options include quinine in combination with doxycycline, tetracycline, or clindamycin; atovaquone in combination with progunil (Malarone); or mefloquine (
Lariam), but only if it is not being used prophylactically.
In regions with chloroquine-resistant plasmodia, treatment options include quinine in combination with doxycycline, tetracycline, or clindamycin; atovaquone in combination with proguanil (Malarone); or mefloquine (
Lariam), but only if it is not being used prophylactically
Mefloquine (
Lariam) is still the CDC's first recommendation.
Erik van Lieshout's video
LARIAM, 2001, projected in a low shack made of cardboard and tape and resembling an upside-down pillbox, captures the artist in Ghana asking locals to help him turn a hard-to-pronounce Dutch phrase into a rap song.
The most Orwellian--or perhaps merely absurd--moment came when we tried one final time to get the military's attention on a shocking incident in which the controversial malaria drug,
Lariam, was an issue.
His lawyers argued that any responsibility he may have had was diminished by a combination of manic depression and
Lariam, an antimalarial drug that is, in fact, known to cause unpleasant temporary psychological effects in some people.
Hundreds of reports of adverse side effects on the antimalarial drug
Lariam also are on file, and the Army is investigating whether
Lariam played a role in murders at Ft.
Mefloquine, marketed as
Lariam by Roche Pharmaceuticals, is approved for the treatment and prevention of malaria.
He said there is no scientific evidence of a causal link between
Lariam and suicide or suicidal ideation, based on all data currently available.
A distracting sideshow to the murder investigations has been a UPI report suggesting the soldiers might have suffered side-effects of
Lariam, a drug the Army gives prophylactically to troops going to malarial areas.
None of it is helped by the insomnia produced by
Lariam, the newest anti-malarial medication, whose package insert includes the warning, "Don't drive a car if you're hallucinating."
