Laura Howell said she blamed Lariam, an Army-issued anti-malaria drug, for her husband's suicide. The drug's manufacturer, Roche Pharmaceuticals, says side effects can include anxiety, paranoia, depression, hallucinations and psychotic behavior.
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Strange suicides
Three Iraq war veterans who had served in the 10th Special Forces Group recently committed suicide under odd circumstances. Conspiracy buffs may theorize that the men received "assisted suicide" because they had seen something they weren't supposed to. (See the post below on retaliation against mouthy military men.) More intriguing -- to me, at least -- is the suggestion proffered by one of the wives:
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As someone who's been following the Lariam suicide stories for a while now, I would say the drug probably had more to do with it than anything else. Many military folks who were given Larium have killed themselves in the last couple of years, as have, apparently, many other people who took it. Last night, on a Google search, I found hits at various discussion boards on which former Peace Corps volunteers who also used Larium confessed the long-lasting anxiety and depression it left them with.
The Lariam hypothesis is quite plausible, though this from the article intrigues: "He had recently been arrested for allegedly arranging to have sex with an undercover officer who had posed on the Internet as a 13-year-old girl."
This seems reminiscent of the sting carried out against Scott Ritter, one wonders whether there is something behind this, ie. might he have been targetted for blackmail.
Advertising can be a big problem otherwise. A lot of companies reserve a big chunk of their budgets to cover marketing expenditures.
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