This year, a panel of researchers and scientists plan to publish the results of a year-long study that looked at anti-malarial drugs given to U.S. troops suspected to have caused serious mental and physical health symptoms. These results are greatly anticipated by former service members and Peace Corps volunteers who claim that their debilitating health symptoms were caused by malaria preventive drugs issued to them.
According to an article published by Military Times, “At the request of the Department of Veterans Affairs, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine researchers are examining existing scientific literature to determine whether anti-malaria drugs, including mefloquine, also known as Lariam, cause brain damage, neurological conditions or psychiatric disorders.”
Service members told members how their lives have been deeply affected by the drug at a scientific panel meeting last year with symptoms including vivid dreams, insomnia, anxiety, depression, and “brain fog”, and vertigo.
Relevant pages: Veterans Disability