Mefloquine (Lariam, Roche USA) & MK-ULTRA

There is one drug that needs far more research and attention in the context of mass shootings and suicide, particularly by former or active military. Former active military on this board will likely have heard of Mefloquine (or brand name Lariam, Roche USA), which has been used throughout the United States and elsewhere as a prophylactic and treatment for malaria. If they do know of this anti-parasitic drug, they may be disturbed to learn about its history. Mefloquine was developed largely in secret and then fast tracked thru the FDA approval process with relative little appropriate testing for safety and efficacy.

Moreover, there is evidence that as early as 1955, and possibly earlier, the CIA was experimenting with quinolines, the chemical family to which mefloquine belongs, as part of MKULTRA, a program of research in behavioral modification. "Quinolines were included in a study of the “curare-like”—a type of poison used on native blow darts—effects of thiols, and another study that investigated toxic cerebral states. The stated aim of the latter study was to “understand the mechanism of such states as toxic delirium, uremic coma, and cerebral toxicity from poisoning.”

The potential use of these drugs in an interrogation setting was a stated purpose for the study: “an adversary service could use such drugs to produce anxiety or terror in medically unsophisticated subjects unable to distinguish drug-induced psychosis from actual insanity.”

Because of my research in neuropsychopharmacology, I only became aware of mefloquine by chance a few years ago as it is not classed a CNS drug. However, when I first saw its chemical structure, I immediately recognized the "psychostimulant" skeletal pharmacophore found in methamphetamine and "bath salt" type psycho-stimulants. However, because of mefloquine's 6 fluorine groups, its half life for the single "treatment" dose (1250 mg) for active infection has a half life of 15-30 days, which means that an unsuspecting person could take this drug, but only begin to experience adverse psychiatric symptoms several days later without being aware that the effects are drug induced and not idiopathic.

Because GITMO exists outside the US and is under military control, it would also provide a unique opportunity to continue secret advanced MK-Ultra research.

If you start digging into the dozens of news paper articles and published studies in the posted graphics, you will begin to paint a very ugly and disturbing picture.