does anyone know if the military is still giving troops Lariam?

[w8liftinglady]

On August 9, 2005, a Marine Corps discharge board at Camp Pendleton, California, directed that a career Marine named Matthew Hevezi be summarily discharged from the service.

Hevezi, a Gunnery Sergeant with 18 years of service, was a devoted Marine and believer in the code of the Corps, “Semper Fidelis.” He held the ethics of the Marines to be as reliable as the turning of the earth—until he suffered a bizarre reaction to an anti-malarial drug called Lariam and found his beloved service disinclined to honor his commitment and loyalty, or respond to his calls for help. Indeed, there seemed to be no stopping a service ultimately determined to show him the door.

The case of Matt Hevezi is a vivid illustration of the military’s failure to come to terms with Lariam, a lapse that comes at great cost to individuals and families ruined by debilitating reactions to a little white pill.

http://www.vva.org/TheVeteran/2005_11/feature_Lariam.htm

[Breeze54]

1. They were! Why would they stop?

http://www.cdc.gov/travel/malariadrugs.htm

Read the VA Department's 2004 brief on Lariam's longterm side effects here.

The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) published a study last month
indicating brain stem damage in rats after exposure to Lariam,
but the VA has stated it needs more evidence of brain stem injury in humans.
WRAIR is funding the development of a commercially available safety test
to screen for susceptibility to Lariam's negative side effects.

Until recently, many troops given Lariam were given very little information
about the drug's side-effects, including the possibility of nerve damage.
As questions about Lariam persist, the FDA has released a pamphlet that all
patients given Lariam are supposed to receive.

Senator Feinstein (D-CA) has called for an investigation into the effects of Lariam.
Read her press release.
http://feinstein.senate.gov/04Releases/r-lariam-powell.htm

To find out more about Lariam,
including links to studies from the World Health Organization,
visit Alliance For Security.
http://www.allianceforsecurity.org/lariam

Lariam Action USA offers information and support of Lariam users and their families.
http://www.lariaminfo.org/

Read GNN's report on how Lariam causes psychotic reactions and isn't needed in Iraq.
http://www.gnn.tv/H01138

Read in NGWRC about the latest Lariam-linked violent suicide at Fort Bragg.
http://www.ngwrc.org/index.cfm?Page=Article&ID=1940

Read David Hackworth's article in Soldiers For the Truth.
http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=Hacks%20Target%20Homepage.db&command=viewone&op=t&id=107&rnd=675.1563321659108

I found all the above Links here -->
http://www.iava.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=65&Itemid=66

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That's all I know... I'm worried too.
:shrug:

[w8liftinglady]

3. BIG help...thnks...

[babylonsister]

2. I don't know about Lariam, but this will ratchet up the anger:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1350821

[AllNamesHaveBeenUsed]

4. Lariam...

I don't know if it was the same anti-malarial drug, but a few Airborne types came back from the Iraq and beat and/or murdered their spouses (Ft. Bragg). Supposedly, the common link was the drug.

[KittyWampus]

5. CNN did a report on Lariam years back. Special Forces guys were freaking

after having taken Lariam. And Special Forces guys, by definition, do not freak out.

Lariam alters their personality and brain permanently too, IIRC.

[AllNamesHaveBeenUsed]

6. I think...

I think that was the story to which I was referring. All on Ft. Bragg, right?