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To ban the use of the drug LARIUM on U.S. Troops and civilians due to psychotic adverse reactions
| Number | Date | Name | Age | Gender | City | State | Zip/Postal Code | Country | Your military background, if any? | Other military substances you'd like to see banned? | Open comments | Open comments | Open comments |
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| 223 | 8:57 pm PDT, Jul 4 | Juliana Stoyanova | 0 | Female | Sofia | 1309 | Bulgaria | NA | NA | ||||
| 222 | 7:36 pm PDT, Jul 2 | F. Thibodeau | 40 | Male | MOntreal | h2v 3x7 | Canada | none | none | Taking Lariam is like playing Roulette Russe. You do not know if it will it you, and if it does you can`t go back. | Its been 10 years I am suffering from Lariam. I reported my case to Roche. They took my report never followed up and never offered any help. They have knowned the amplitude of the risk for a very long time and failed to inform properly the customers. The published statistic of one person in 13,000 getting a bad reaction is false. But roche obviously does not want the real numbers to get out. We are now thousand of victims and many of us could have been saved if we had been propperly informed of the risks. | ||
| 221 | 6:24 pm PDT, Jul 2 | Andrew Sterioff | 40 | Male | Minneapolis | Minnesota | 55419-5441 | United States | None | Lariam (Mefloquine) | |||
| 220 | 3:41 pm PDT, Jul 2 | Joan Shahrani | 45 | Female | Belleville | Wisconsin | 53508 | United States | None | Not sure at this time. | |||
| 219 | 3:33 pm PDT, Jul 2 | Al Graham | 43 | Male | Hastings | TN34 | United Kingdom | none | not sure | In the latest (UK) warning about Lariam it states that "because of the long half-life of mefloquine, adverse reactions to Lariam may occur or persist for more than several weeks after the last dose." | This is misleading as the half-life does not refer to the amount of the drug entering the brain tissue, where it does most harm. No one knows how long it remains absorbed in the brain. | Symptoms can therefore last for many years. People think they will get over the effects fairly quickly. This is a false assumption. | |
| 218 | 3:27 pm PDT, Jul 2 | Pamela Maule | 51 | Female | Iron Mountain | Michigan | 49801 | United States | none | I can't answer this question. | Beside the military, Lariam should be banned completely from use including use in the Peace Corps and with world travelers. | My son experienced problems with Lariam while serving in the Peace Corps. | |
| 217 | 2:43 pm PDT, Jul 2 | GREG S | 50 | Male | billerica | Massachusetts | 01821 | United States | ex US Army, Ft Bragg, NC - In 1979 my unit was on alert for the hostage crisis in Iran and we were all given LARIAM - we were used as Guinea pigs! | LARIAM | I've suffered 29 YEARS of permanent brain damage, SEVERE depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, insomnia, fatigue, ADD, mood disorder & MUCH more! | ||
| 216 | 3:59 pm PDT, Jun 24 | Steve Dale | 47 | Male | Frankston,victoria | 3199 | Australia | NIL | ALL DRUGS OF ANY KIND. | ||||
| 215 | 2:33 pm PDT, Jun 24 | Amanda Wimberly | 32 | Female | Hanceville | Alabama | 35077 | United States | None, Brother in Army | Anything that is going to harm our troops any further than what the war already has! | The military needs to take better care of our troops. | ||
| 214 | 9:26 pm PDT, Jul 24 | Kat Fisher | 40 | Female | Marble Falls | Texas | 78654 | United States | Mother of US Soldier | n/a | |||
| 213 | 4:32 pm PDT, Jul 17 | Chakwaina Reeves | 40 | Female | Bon Aqua | Tennessee | 37025 | United States | ROTC and long Paternernal line of Military (Navy)(Father was used as a guinea pig for yellow fever) | Our troops are serving to protect us not to be human guinea pigs. | |||
| 212 | 10:23 am PDT, May 25 | Joy Cagle | 45 | Female | Sylva | North Carolina | 28779 | United States | Military brat. | Bomblets. | |||
| 211 | 3:52 pm PDT, Apr 8 | Antanacio Z. Guzman | 17 | Male | newark | New Jersey | 07104 | United States | in the nj army national gurad | none at the moment | |||
| 210 | 9:01 am PDT, Apr 6 | Stephanie Aguilar | 29 | Female | Oceanside | California | 92054 | United States | Air Force | none | |||
| 209 | 8:38 pm PST, Jan 8 | Jennifer Layne | 29 | Female | The Woodlands | Texas | 77381 | United States | veteran | see comments | Military members should have fully disclosed information regarding any type of injections or medications given to them. Not enough information is given to soldier’s prior injection time during line ups for any vaccines. | Psychiatric drugs for military members should be a choice and all information to the drug should be supplied to the service member or veteran before being prescribed any types of these drugs. I feel the military and VA are very easy on writing any type of psychiatric medications. There are many non pharmaceutical remedies to heal the mind than something white, yellow, blue or pink. | |
| 208 | 12:22 pm PST, Jan 2 | Rose Hedge | 23 | Female | Indianapolis | Indiana | 46256 | United States | NO | NO | I believe Larium should be banned from all government organizations | ||
| 207 | 9:31 am PDT, Jun 29 | Matthew A. Perry | 27 | Male | Livermore | California | 94551 | United States | family in the military | none come to mind | |||
| 206 | 9:27 pm PDT, Jun 15 | Vittorio Patriarca | 21 | Male | Turin | 10143 | Italy | I haven't military background | I don't know | ||||
| 205 | 12:35 pm PDT, Jun 9 | Karl Ford | 46 | Male | Stafford | Texas | 77477 | United States | Marine | Larium | |||
| 204 | 6:23 am PDT, May 19 | Lisa Bruns | 27 | Female | concord | California | 94518 | United States | none | amphetamines | Provide accurate information to our soldiers. Educate them on the risks vs. benefits and allow them to make the decision. A drug this dangerous should not be made mandatory or be taken in ignorance. | ||
| 203 | 2:00 am PDT, May 19 | Jennifer Bechard | 19 | Female | Clifton Park | New York | 12065 | United States | N/A | Poisons | Please don't expose people to drugs with horrible side effects! | ||
| 202 | 6:33 pm PDT, May 17 | Dareck Anton | 16 | Male | schererville | Indiana | 46375 | United States | No, but I want to join airforce when I get out of highschool. | Don't know. | |||
| 201 | 6:27 pm PDT, May 5 | Sarah Sullivan | 19 | Female | London | HP15 7UW | United Kingdom | None | Any that cause these adverse affects. | ||||
| 200 | 5:24 am PDT, May 2 | angel pieseski | 31 | Female | pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | 15217 | United States | us navy jan 93-dec 97 | anything that personnel are not told about or that are given without being told of the repercussions anything that is not entered into their medical records | |||
| 199 | 10:20 am PDT, May 1 | sharon cook | 30 | Female | Milltown Killarney | 99999 | Ireland | none | dont know any other | ||||
| 198 | 11:41 am PDT, Apr 27 | Peggy Pharr Wilson | 47 | Female | Creede | Colorado | 81130 | United States | none | don't know | My nephew was given this drug by the Peace Corp and had a horrible psychotic reaction. | ||
| 197 | 9:13 am PDT, Apr 27 | Kym Cree | 41 | Female | New York | New York | 10256 | United States | None except friends. | Just about everything used is wrong and needs to be banned. | |||
| 196 | 6:43 am PDT, Apr 25 | Amber Green | 27 | Female | Savannah | Georgia | 31406 | United States | None, but my husband is in the army (active duty) | NA | |||
| 195 | 3:25 pm PDT, Apr 23 | nick przybyla | 24 | Male | Los Angeles | California | 90029 | United States | Veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom 2001-2002. | Depleted Uranium | |||
| 194 | 1:13 pm PDT, Apr 22 | Anonymous | 30 | Male | Beverly Hills | California | 90209 | United States | n/a | unknown | |||
| 193 | 11:50 pm PDT, Apr 19 | Summer Parlier | 23 | Female | Guymon | Oklahoma | 73942 | United States | none | just larium | |||
| 192 | 6:23 pm PDT, Apr 19 | jacob cribbs | 15 | Male | waycross | Georgia | 31503 | United States | none | larium | |||
| 191 | 1:21 pm PDT, Apr 19 | adam beamesderfer | 0 | Male | jackson | Michigan | 49201 | United States | no..no military background | >>>? | all for larium and to help cure IT!!! | ||
| 190 | 11:09 am PDT, Apr 18 | Robert Duque | 18 | Male | Oxford | Alabama | 36206 | United States | no | Larium on troops | |||
| 189 | 8:52 am PDT, Apr 18 | Suzanne Marmion | 34 | Female | Lilongwe | 12 | Malawi | US citizen protected by our troops. | Just focusing on Lariam here. | After taking the three "trial" pills of Lariam (which is all it takes to trigger most adverse reactions, that can last for years), I suffered vestibular damage, i.e. brain damage which is permanent and causes dizziness and seizures. | I went from being a healthy journalist at the peak of my career leaving for a foreign assignment, to not working for many months and suffering from a list of major problems, including sudden and inexplicable urges to kill myself or hurt others. More than a year and a half later now, I still suffer seizures from the neurotoxic effects of mefloquine. | There are two equally powerful anti-malarial medications on the market which don't have nearly the same risk-rate of mefloquine, nor such serious side affects: doxycycline and Malarone. | |
| 188 | 5:13 am PDT, Apr 18 | Howard Scott Pearlman | 53 | Male | Cherry Hill | New Jersey | 08034 | United States | I lost 2 parents in a car accident that contained the whole family when I was 19 during the Vietnam War. I had to help the remaining family members after that. | Uranium used in penetrator bombs and bullets and as armor. Napalm, Cluster bombs used in civillian areas, etc | The Army Needs To Have A Way To Defend Against Incompetent and Criminal Commanders that have them carry out war crimes. | The Army Needs a Union Like Structure that defends them and brings the unjust crimes against the TROOPS, who are American Citizens, where they can be aired in a PUBLIC COURT and give the TROOPS the Justice that they deserve. | Bush and his administration must be made to pay for all of the horrible crimes they have commited against mankind and nature. |
| 187 | 2:26 am PDT, Apr 18 | Becca Goldman | 18 | Female | longmont | Colorado | 80503 | United States | none | all if possible | |||
| 186 | 6:21 pm PDT, Apr 17 | Annie Houlihan | 0 | Female | Green Valley | Arizona | 85614 | United States | None | Can't think of one | |||
| 185 | 2:08 pm PDT, Apr 17 | Anonymous | 21 | Female | Decatur | Texas | 76234 | United States | None | None | |||
| 184 | 11:52 am PDT, Apr 17 | Anonymous | 66 | Female | san rafael | California | 94903 | United States | none | white phospherous | |||
| 183 | 3:19 am PDT, Apr 17 | Kim Sanders-Fisher | 0 | Female | Hastings Old Town | TN34-3EN | United Kingdom | None, I do work as a Medical Volunteer for overseas NGOs | Any drug developed by the Military for the Military must be subjected to rigerous independant testing. There is a serious conflict of interest when the US Military focus only on their soldiers as expendable killing machines. | Just because many of those recruted by the US Military are drawn from ethnic minority backgrounds, are often poor and therefore vulnerable, does not mean they can be used as cheap lab rats! US Peace Corps Volunteers were also "used" in a similar quite unethical way as "test" subjects: at one point taking Lariam was a condition of service. Other overseas NGO staff know better and will not use Lariam due to the dangers. | I took a total of just 6 tablets prescribed by my travel clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital. During my tour of South America I only needed protection from Malaria for a single week on the Amazon river. I was was still taking the drug while I was back at my job in the Operating Rooms after my return to the US. I was never warned of the real dangers to my own health or compramise of my ability to function safely during Surgery. "Making unreasonable demands for accommodation of an undiagnosed medical condition" was not well tollerated at Hopkins. | Lariam remained in my system for well over a year after I had stopped taking it. I was tormented by graphic dreams lasting throughout the night disturbing my sleep and leaving me permanantly exhausted. I still have very vivid dreams. With no recognition of the real cause of my ongoing medical problem I was forced out of my job. This is a dangerous toxic substance that destroys people's lives; it certainly helped to destroy mine. | |
| 182 | 9:41 pm PDT, Apr 16 | Amanda Bullock | 18 | Female | Hanover | Maryland | 21076 | United States | My dad is active duty army, currently a major stationed at Fort Belvoir, VA | none to my knowledge. | |||
| 181 | 8:13 pm PDT, Apr 16 | Anonymous | 0 | Male | westminster | Colorado | 80020 | United States | none | none as far as i know | |||
| 180 | 7:55 pm PDT, Apr 16 | jean pendze | 45 | Female | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19134 | United States | none | any that due harm physically or mentally to our troops. | |||
| 179 | 7:18 pm PDT, Apr 16 | James Brown | 26 | Male | Fort Worth | Texas | 76120 | United States | I have seen the commercial, but I don't buy the product. | Anything that requires a liability waiver. | |||
| 178 | 5:32 pm PDT, Apr 16 | Agnes Corbett | 66 | Female | Teresopolis | Armed Forces Americas | 00000 | Brazil | None. | Can´t remember of any other right now. | |||
| 177 | 4:28 pm PDT, Apr 16 | Anonymous | 0 | Female | chino valley | Arizona | 86323 | United States | none | nothing i can think of | |||
| 175 | 12:57 pm PDT, Apr 16 | John Meyer | 36 | Male | Middleburg | Florida | 32068 | United States | I am in the Navy and have been for the past 16 years. | None for the moment. | |||
| 174 | 10:28 am PDT, Apr 16 | sondra henry | 35 | Female | junction city | Kansas | 66441 | United States | none, but my husband is in the army. | i'm not sure. | |||
| 173 | 12:50 am PDT, Apr 16 | Andrew Bryce | 39 | Male | Sutton | Dublin 13 | Ireland | n/a | n/a | Since setting up the Irish support group in 1999, I have encountered many long term cases such as my own. | Keep checking www.lariaminfo.org for the latest news. | ||
| 172 | 8:46 pm PDT, Apr 15 | Bill Manofsky | 47 | Male | Ridgecrest | California | 93555 | United States | Commander USNR - I took Mefloquine during Operations Southern Watch and Iraqi Freedom. I am disabled from the drug. | Bromide tablets used for nerve gas | 1. Walter Reed now admits that Mefloquine is a neurotoxin. Go to LARIAMINFO.ORG to see the latest research on Mefloquine from Walter Reed, the inventor of the drug. The results are summarized in a published last month (Mar2006) on lab rats. | 2. When Mefloquine was first "approved" by the FDA, no neurotoxic testing was required. To perform this latest testing on lab rats, Walter Reed actually had to go to the EPA for a test protocol since the FDA does not have one. Mefloquine caused injury to the rat's brain stem in the part that transmits balance(vestibular) signals. | 3. In a paper written in 2003, Walter Reed said that Mefloquine passes through the blood brain barrier and can collect as much as 30 fold in the cental nervous system over blood plasma levels. They reported that the neurotoxic concentration of mefloquine is 25 micro moles and they found as much as 50 micro moles in the brains of human post mortem cases. They also found up to as much as 90 to 100 micro moles in the brains of lab rats. Again, they never performed neurotoxic testing prior to the use of this drug on humans. Preventing malaria was the primary focus. |
| 171 | 8:06 pm PDT, Apr 15 | Stephani Ortiz | 18 | Female | N. Las Vegas | Nevada | 89031 | United States | none | i dont know | |||
| 170 | 7:41 pm PDT, Apr 15 | Naomi Rosedale | 39 | Female | Auckland | 1002 | New Zealand | Nil | N/A | I have personally suffered the debilitating effects of Lariam, which I am only now recovering from after 3 years. Probably one of the greatest of its and its manufacturers crimes is that most victims are left without medical support during a time of intense physical and psychological distress. There are other anti-malarial drugs that can be used in place of Lariam -the terrible cost to innocent individuals should be stopped. | |||
| 169 | 6:22 pm PDT, Apr 15 | Emilie Pryor | 23 | Female | Salamanca | New York | 14779 | United States | none | unknown | ban lariam among peace corps volunteers too. i suffer from lariam toxicity after taking it in the peace corps in ecuador. | ||
| 168 | 6:06 pm PDT, Apr 15 | Anonymous | 0 | Female | Buglians | Illinois | 60062 | United States | none | i dont know. | |||
| 167 | 6:00 pm PDT, Apr 15 | Anonymous | 62 | Male | Kingsbridge | TQ7 1EX | United Kingdom | None | Pass | ||||
| 166 | 3:35 pm PDT, Apr 15 | Benjamin Clark | 26 | Male | North Hollywood | California | 91606 | United States | Navy | All that lack independent public research. | |||
| 165 | 2:05 pm PDT, Apr 15 | JD Morris | 30 | Female | Boca Raton | Florida | 33432 | United States | n/a | Any proven to leave harmful effects to our troop should be banned. The men and women sacrifice enough WITHOUT being guinea pigs for drugs. | The servicemen and women sacrifice enough WITHOUT being guinea pigs for drugs. | ||
| 164 | 1:28 pm PDT, Apr 15 | Amber Vann | 0 | Female | Live Oak | Florida | 32060 | United States | n/a | n/a | |||
| 163 | 12:00 pm PDT, Apr 15 | Anonymous | 18 | Female | Ashland | Ohio | 44805 | United States | none | nothing else just this drug! | |||
| 162 | 8:36 am PDT, Apr 15 | PFC Radford | 0 | Male | Plainfield | Illinois | 60544 | United States | leave for Infantry school and airborne school in a week. dads in navy, stepdad retired navy, mother retired navy, 2 cousins army infantry, brother is AF, both grandparents served in WW2. | N/A | |||
| 161 | 8:14 am PDT, Apr 15 | Marc C. Dalton | 36 | Male | Carson City | Nevada | 89706 | United States | One of the Original guinee pigs, us army | JP8 | |||
| 160 | 6:58 am PDT, Apr 15 | Jocelyn B | 21 | Female | El Paso | Texas | 79912 | United States | My husband is in the Army and I was in the AF, My now deceased father was in the NAvy and I have a cousin who is an officer in the Army and another cousin who was in the navy | Any proven to leave harmful effects to our troop should be banned. | |||
| 159 | 6:56 am PDT, Apr 15 | Anonymous | 0 | Male | worcester | Massachusetts | 01606 | United States | none | none | |||
| 158 | 6:25 am PDT, Apr 15 | matt chase | 15 | Male | chatham | New Jersey | 07928 | United States | none | none | |||
| 157 | 5:01 am PDT, Apr 15 | David Barnett | 19 | Male | Wolverhampton | United Kingdom | None | None | |||||
| 156 | 12:37 am PDT, Apr 15 | Dana Wellock | 0 | Female | Redmond | Oregon | 97756 | United States | 0 | Donald Rumsfeld | |||
| 155 | 10:45 pm PDT, Apr 14 | Natalie Phillips | 25 | Female | Royal Oak | Michigan | 48067 | United States | none | none | stop using soldiers as guinea pigs! | ||
| 154 | 8:46 pm PDT, Apr 14 | Jared Hedges | 25 | Male | Haltom City | Texas | 76137 | United States | n/a | n/a | My brother had a very bad reaction from this as well, and was forced to quit the Peace Corps. | ||
| 153 | 7:27 pm PDT, Apr 14 | Anonymous | 0 | Female | in Texas | Texas | 75023 | United States | None. | Nothing that I've heard of. | |||
| 152 | 6:39 pm PDT, Apr 14 | Shaun Bernard | 26 | Male | Moreno Valley | California | 92552 | United States | none | ? | |||
| 151 | 4:37 pm PDT, Apr 14 | thomas papp | 23 | Male | Culver City | California | 90230 | United States | None. | I dont know. |
Petition To Ban The Use Of Larium On U.S. Troops
This petition calls for a complete ban on the use of the drug Larium under any name to be used on U.S. Troops or Civilians due to reported psychotic reactions among U.S. Troops to both themselves and others upon return from service overseas.
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