Medication a ‘horror movie in a pill’
LARIAM is a brand name for the drug Mefloquine – a compound made in the 1970s just after the end of the Vietnam War.
The medication is no longer available in Irish pharmacies and is not used by the military in the UK, US, Australia or Germany.
The drug can cause severe physical and psychiatric side-effects including muscle spasms, memory loss, mood swings, insomnia, anxiety, depression, hallucinations and suicidal thoughts.
EX-US army Dr Remington Nevin described it as “a horror movie in a pill”.