Canadian soldiers allege anti-malaria medicine left them with intense rage, suicidal ideations

Canadian soldiers allege anti-malaria medicine left them with intense rage, suicidal ideations

Avery Haines, Investigative Correspondent, W5

KINGSTON, ONT. — Richard Schumann always wished to be considered a soldier.

Sitting inside the bungalow in Kingston, Ont., their eyes illuminate when sharing their memories to be a young son or daughter having a fantasy.

“I think I happened to be most likely about 4 or 5. It absolutely was always a desire mine to participate the army,” he said.

Schumann’s answers about their childhood, their very very early profession within the reserves after which their implementation to Afghanistan are careful I will take him to places he has spent the last decade trying to forget because he knows in this interview.

We came across Schumann final springtime at a city hallway in Kingston, arranged by Toronto law practice, Howie, Sacks and Henry, that has launched unprecedented appropriate action contrary to the Canadian federal federal government additionally the Department of National Defence.

The allegations: That soldiers in Somalia, Rwanda and Afghanistan had been kept with severe and side that is long-lasting through the anti-malaria medication these were forced to simply simply take.

Mefloquine, offered beneath the brand Lariam, had been considered cheaper and much more efficient since it just would have to be taken as soon as a week, rather than daily. Nevertheless the soldiers allege these were never told that the drug would keep them struggling, years later, with intense rage, memory dilemmas, tinnitus, violent evening terrors and ideation that is suicidal. Continue reading “Canadian soldiers allege anti-malaria medicine left them with intense rage, suicidal ideations”