Mefloquine: The True Story Behind Malaria's Controversial Medicine | Real Stories
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- Опубликовано: 17 авг 2022
- Developed by the US Army after Vietnam to combat malaria in troops, Mefloquine became available to the public in the 90s. However, in the following decades it became most well-known for reports of its serious psychiatric side effects. Questions about why it has been so widely and easily dispensed have been raised for some time. The director’s personal investigation seeks to understand why those affected have been left in the dark for so long. In doing so he uncovers some surprising truths about the powerful players involved in this controversial drug’s story.
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Thank you for making this documentary.
This is great information. in 97 I was chosen to travel to India to take part in the inaugural Blind World Cup cricket, for weeks before travelling I was advised to take Lariam one tablet a week on the third week I felt lethargic and disorientated on my arrival in India on the first week I found myself disorientated and almost psychotic I remained in India for three weeks at the World Cup blind cricket venue lethargic and not remembering too much at all. I still suffer right now this very day from the side effects from the anti-malaria tablet Lariam this information needs to go out to the people and this drug be removed immediately
Hello. What side effects are you still experiencing?
Somalia Affair and the Canadian Airborne Regiment in 1992. Mefloquine's impact on the troops conveniently forgotten. The soldiers were unwilling test subjects for the drug. The Canadian Governments response, was to disband the regiment. Not address the effects of Mefloquine. It was cheaper to blame the test subjects, than admit legal liability.
Awesome documentary thank you for letting us know. 💪🏻
I took Mefloquine while in Vietnam...Horrible nightmares.
I was given that drug with at age 14 and 16 (vacations in Africa with parents in the 1990th, unfortunately there weren't any danger in that areas) and it made out a mess of my teenage psyche. I had the imagination of being above my head and looking through windows instead eyes. Controlling my body only like as a robot. Grrrrr
I'm a pharmacy student and I find this documentary very informative.Psychosis might not be the only adverse effect experienced ,other that might have not been unlocked may exist.This happens to almost all drugs,avoid drugs if possible.
Kansas?
re-labelled a few times for its serious side effects, it should've been taken off the shelves decades ago, but looking at some documents recently, dated 2022 & 2023, mefloquine is still experimented with
It happened with us in the Australian Military as well. The Government and drug company's still refuse to acknowledge any association between the Drug & subsequent mental health issues.
im not sure what we were taking in borneo back in the late 80's but it was anti-malarial...we done the butterworth rotation.
@@dmystify1381 They've been giving it to soldiers in East Timor & Afghanistan as well. Were u Infantry Mate? I'm Ex 1RAR
@@godfroi10991 ...gday brother...ex-5/7 RAR
Been on it for years in the US & no side effects, the thankfully. But the info was very valuable, thank you.
Often the people having issues with the drugs are not the ones who notice it. The drug actually caused brain stem damage. Why would you be on Mefloquin for years in the U.S. this documentary is not about Hydroxychloroquine. They don't even sell Lariam in the U.S. anymore.
BTW Mefloquin has never been prescribed to anyone for years in the U.S. It's not a daily medication it's strictly a malaria medication.
Now I'm wondering if this issue with quinine could explain why someone might become especially unstable when binge drinking gin and tonic.
They weren’t the only ones forced to take the drug mefloquine. We that did a tour in Cambodia at the same time as the airborne regiment was in Somalia. We hired lawyers and 31 years later we are still waiting for help .
Not just the military, I was given Larium in the 80s for travel to Senegal and Sierra Leone, and Gambia I think. Then I started reading about side effects and started my own regime to protect myself. As I write this, my wife in Kenya has Malaria - again. 2nd time this year. And our kid has had it also.I am English non-military normal caucasian. Thank you for this; I was quite possibly a bit cranky in the 80s, perhaps contributing to a divorce???? Who knows?
I also sent a pack of Moroccan Wormwood /Artemisia Absinthium to my bro in Gambia , cleared his Malaria fast - ebay £5,0 , Malaria in Gam is more deadly than in Kenya except in Kisumu area
OK, I'm in the UK 🇬🇧 and I went to South Africa in 2006, all I was given was a single injection 💉 for Malaria prevention, so how was this tablet only discussed in 2015 and why wasn't I given it? Not that I'm not glad I wasn't given it, I'm a diagnosed Schizophrenic and already have hallucinations, at least not so much when taking my medication but they never go away, it just feels really weird to me that the side effects have been known about for so long that any GP surgery will give people traveling to Malaria prone countries a single, side effect free injection, so why aren't army personnel given the same choice? 😲
Also, Quinine is still available on Prescription, I've had it many times in prison... 🤦
Again...proper informed consent (like Nuremberg code)
Amazingly in England you don't seem to need a prescription for these powerful drugs.When my sister got what she thought was Malaria she was able to buy an antimalarial drug upon returning to England but I think that it turned out to be Dengue Fever rather than Malaria which is a bit less serious.
Greed is the worst disease, the industry is rotten with it
The problem is the blood brain barrier is allowing the drug into the brain. There are 6 flourine atoms ⚛️ that must be dealt with.
Excess flourine may be involved. Boron from fruits etc will reduce the flourine levels.
A lot of antihelminths cause depression that is because worms can make you happy and hungry too as they are hungry and want to reproduce when they lay their eggs in your brain. Splitting the doses should help i.e. 125 mg daily for 2 weeks instead of 250 mg for a week.
23:40 Correction - I'm sure that he meant "biased data", you don't just look at one side of the story, that is *_not_* how the scientific method works... 🤦💥
would be interesting to know the comparative rates of probs with Polio/Rubella/Yellow Fever/Smallpox/Dengue Fever/Tb/; there's always a side effect/downside/caution.
In my country we use Chloroquine which is way safer.... i think.
Once again the problem is proper risk benefit analysis (just like covid vaccines)
The problem with chloroquine is that , thanks to our hubris (thoughts of eradicating malaria in the 60s with mass treatments ) the resistance of Plasmodium falciparum ( worst kind of malaria) is like 80%
Mefloquine covers for this kind of resistant malaria
Not downplaying the ordeals of mefloquine psychosis ,probably untold lifes were saved by antimalarials of this kind ( quinine is not much better)
Quinenine? Wasn't that in tonic water? Suprised gin drinkers didn't go mad
I'm starting to wonder if that's why gin seemed to be a demon drug for me.
Scary😲😲😲
Mengele, lives on. Despicable.
U had no right 2 kill that Spider ????
She didn't.... It was in her mind rewatch it....
one day there will be a video about the covid vax
There's actually already videos on the covid vax
Covid is a scam
I was thinking the same thing. I never got vaxed for covid 19 for so many reasons. I had a severe side effect from Mefloquine which was also FDA approved.
Yeah, about how so many people were so scared of taking it that rona kept spreading and each variant got worse