I want to bring attention to Australia again, because I had a friend, a veterans' advocate, on mefloquine. She and her husband took it when they went on a trip as civilians to Thailand. She had trouble before she even left home, and the doctor told her to just keep taking it, that she would get used to it, and Australian backpackers told them to get off this drug. She suffered all of her life, and we lost her last December.
This is why its use among the civilian population concerns me as well, because that education needs to be out there.