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*Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin to "Pharmacologic > Waterboarding"* > > A two-month investigation lead by Truthout's Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye > reveals for the first time that the Defense Department forced all "war on > terror" detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high dosage of a > controversial antimalarial drug, mefloquine, an act that an Army public > health physician called "pharmacologic waterboarding." > > The US military administered the drug despite Pentagon knowledge that > mefloquine caused severe neuropsychiatric side effects, including suicidal > thoughts, hallucinations and anxiety. The drug was used on the prisoners > whether they had malaria or not. > > Interviews with mefloquine and malaria experts and a review of > peer-reviewed journals and hundreds of pages of government documents show > there were no preexisting cases where mefloquine was ever prescribed for > mass presumptive treatment of malaria. The use of the drug in this manner > may have violated a provision in the anti-torture statute related to "mind > altering substances or other procedures" that "profoundly disrupts the > senses or the personality." > < > http://www.truth-out.org/controversial-drug-given-all-guantanamo-detainees-amounted-pharmacologic-waterboarding6558 > > > > > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
