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 described as a soldier.

Sitting in their bungalow in Kingston, Ont., their eyes illuminate when sharing their memories to be a young youngster with a fantasy.

“I think I became most likely about four to five. It absolutely was constantly an imagine mine to participate the army,” he said.

Schumann’s responses about his youth, their very early profession into 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 met Schumann spring that is last a city hallway in Kingston, arranged by Toronto law practice, Howie, Sacks and Henry, which includes launched unprecedented appropriate action up against the Canadian federal federal government and also 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 drug these were forced to simply just take.

Mefloquine, offered beneath the brand Lariam, had been considered cheaper and much more efficient as it only must be taken as soon as a instead of daily week. However the soldiers allege these were never told that the medication would keep them struggling, years later on, with intense rage, memory problems, ringing ears, violent evening terrors and ideation that is suicidal. Continuar leyendo «Canadian soldiers allege anti-malaria medicine left them with intense rage, suicidal ideations»