"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.

South Africa couple suffer mefliam ‘nightmare,’ June 2009. Generics cause the same problems as brand name drug.

”. . . the pill below can protect you, but what if that pill ruins your life?” Rose George reports on the men and women who believe Lariam. . . has changed them forever. Telegraph [London] magazine Seven,” March 8, 2009.

Musings on Lariam, malaria, and more from My Fair Scientist. Click “Read more” for the whole article. [Posted to blog Feb 2009]

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

Hidden Dangers: 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.

Worry spreads over drugs given to troops, Seth Hettena, AP, February 13, 2005.

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?

LARIAM AND U.S. SPECIAL FORCES: PENTAGON DRUG PROBLEM? The Washington Note, Steve Clemons, Sep 07 2004.

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

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

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


FDA requires warnings on antimalaria drug Lariam.” Consumer Reports, January 2004

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

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

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.”

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

The Nightmare Drug by Jason Sheftell, Gear magazine, May 2001

The Lariam Files Washington Post’s 8-page Health feature on Lariam. Keith Epstein, Octover 10, 2000.

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

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?”