"I could almost weep ... have only learned today that there are others in the world suffering from the use of Lariam."

Lariam in Print

UPI investigative series – a premiere, award-winning investigative series on Lariam by Dan Olmsted and Mark Benjamin – more than 40 stories published between May 2002 and 2005. The series covers Lariam and suicide, the Peace Corps, the murder/suicides at Ft Bragg, Lariam and brain damage, Lariam in Afghanistan and Iraq, and more.

Nightmare in Tourist Paradise European woman on holiday in Zanzibar develops life-changing toxic reaction to Lariam. Christian Egg, Gesundheit tipp, July 2007.

Drug risks the system missed: twelve relatively common drugs CR identified as having known or suspected serious risks that were undetected or underestimated when the FDA approved them, Consumer Reports, Jan 2006. [Mefloquine is on the list.]

Prescription for Trouble: Consumer Reports Examines Weaknesses of Current Drug-safety System, Consumer Reports, Jan 2006.

Chemical Casualties, by Joel Warner, Boulder Weekly, February 17, 2005. Colorado soldiers Andrew Pogany and Bill Howell were devastated by Operation Iraqi Freedom. What caused the damage?

Dangerous Side Effects by Jill Kramer, Pacific Sun, August 2004

Concerns Grow About Lariam’s Side Effects, Erica Werner, AP, June 2, 2004.

USA Today, March 8, 2004, “Editorial/Opinion: Drug used in malaria fight deserves closer scrutiny”

US Troops – Malaria-Free At What Price? By H. N. O’Shannasey, DefenseWatch, 4-27-04

FDA requires warnings on antimalaria drug Lariam.”

60 Minutes II, CBS News, January 29, 2003, “The Dark Side of Lariam.” “Jane Daehler took Lariam and within days became psychotic….”

Wall Street Journal Online, September 4, 2002, “Malaria Pill’s Side Effects Raise Issues About Safety.”

Consumer Reports, “Lariam’s Legacy,” March 2002. “The most-prescribed malaria drug could produce psychiatric side effects in more than one-quarter of all travelers who take it.”

The Guardian, October 24, 2002, “It’s not a benign drug- it has ruined my life”

Field Notes From Author Philip Caputo, National Geographic Magazine, 2002

“The Nightmare Drug,” Gear, May 2001

“The Lariam Files,” Washington Post, Oct. 10, 2000

UTNE Reader (reprint from www.escapemag.com July 1999), “Malaria’s Not So Magic Bullet: From Peace Corps to psychiatric hospital, Lariam’s untold story”

Did We Poison Our Somalia Soldiers? By Peter Worthington, Toronto, for The Edmonton Sun [Canada], Jan. 3, 1998.

Fly in the Ointment, copyright Lynn Eaton, The Sunday Times Magazine (London), 10 May 1998. WEB EXCLUSIVE, courtesy of author.

“Some Find Malaria Drug Worse Than Disease,” SF Examiner, May 17, 1998

Outside magazine, September 1997, “Lariam’s Sting: Is the world’s top antimalarial drug safe?”