http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060422/pl_afp/usmilitarysuicide_060422002812The US Army said 83 soldiers committed suicide last year, more than a quarter of them while deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Ten soldiers took their own life in the first three months of this year, the army said.
With 83 deaths in 2005, the suicide rate for active duty soldiers was 1.29 per 10,000 persons, up from 1.10 per 10,000 the year before and the 25-year average of 1.24 per 10,000, the army said.
Notice there is no mention of the anti-malarial drug Lariam in the articlehttp://www.lariaminfo.org/pdfs/UPI/UPI20040907Malaria_drug_links_elite_soldier_suicides.pdfMalaria drug links elite soldier suicides
By MARK BENJAMIN and DAN OLMSTED
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- A startling pattern of violence and suicide by
America's most elite soldiers has followed their use of a controversial anti-malaria drug,
an investigation by United Press International and CNN has found.
The government already warns that the drug, called Lariam, might cause long-term
mental problems -- including aggression and suicide.
Six Special Forces soldiers who took their lives are all believed to have taken the drug
http://www.ngwrc.org/index.cfm?page=Article&ID=1932Military drops toxic-drug diagnosis
By Dan Olmsted
Published 2/8/2005 2:50 PM
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A military doctor who linked brain damage in several soldiers to a controversial malaria drug now says he doesn't know whether the drug played any role in those disorders.
The doctor, Navy Cmdr. Michael Hoffer, said he changed his mind based on new information. Critics of the military's handling of the drug, called Lariam, say it fits a pattern of not acknowledging severe side effects -- and that Hoffer was overruled.
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/index.cfm?Page=Article&ID=1499WASHINGTON - The U.S. Army didn't investigate whether a malaria drug it developed could have triggered suicides by soldiers in Iraq, despite a new government suicide warning and complaints from soldiers, a senator and a leading veterans' advocate.
http://www.sftt.org/main.cfm?actionId=globalShowStaticContent&screenKey=cmpDefense&htmlCategoryId=30&htmlId=4925 02.27.2006
Laboratory Rats Suffer Same Fate as Soldiers Who Took Anti-Malarial Drug
By Nathaniel Helms
A half-dozen laboratory rats given Mefloquine, a controversial and some say terribly dangerous anti-malarial drug linked to everything from homicide to suicide in service members who took it in Iraq and Afghanistan and then killed their loved ones and themselves in alarming numbers have displayed the same frightening neurological symptoms.
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