We have seen no evidence to date of mefloquine's relationship to suicide. In fact, if you look at our current data with respect to our mefloquine use and our data on suicide statistics, starting in 2003 the use of mefloquine in the Canadian Armed Forces started to decline from about 85% to where it is today, at about 5%. The curve on use of mefloquine was going this way. When you look at the curve for suicide in the Canadian Armed Forces, we started to see the rise in suicide in the army starting in 2006. You have a curve of mefloquine use going down this way, and suicide going up this way. I know it's a crude comparison, but if there really was a strong linkage between mefloquine and suicide, you might not have expected to see opposing angles on those curves.
On February 23rd, 2017. See this statement in context.