Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, I thank the member for the question. As I mentioned in my opening brief, the deployment of large numbers of women of reproductive age provides an opportunity—but, really, it forces the issue. It forces, or should force, militaries to reconsider, if they haven't alread

Veterans Affairs committee  I would say that what is missing from those reports is an acknowledgement of the most important thing with mefloquine and that is that the use of the drug must be discontinued at the onset of psychiatric symptoms. It is this critical warning that I think has been ignored and that

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, I thank the member for the question. The member is, I believe, referring to the 2009 policy decision made by the U.S. Army. I believe that was in response to some research that I had published that had demonstrated that the drug had been used improperly on a large sc

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. My name is Dr. Remington Nevin. I'm a former U.S. Army physician and preventive medicine officer, trained in epidemiology and drug safety at Johns Hopkins. During my 10-year active duty military career, I conducted research and published extensive

Veterans Affairs committee  We are happy to assist in providing resources. Our mission is to promote and support education and research on this condition, but I don't think you need us. We're happy to help. For example, in the letter to your Minister of Veterans Affairs, I suggested one possible method of i

Veterans Affairs committee  With formal acknowledgement by a senior official at the Department of National Defence or Veterans Affairs Canada, the clinical education will naturally follow. It will be recognized that this is a priority among leadership. Individuals will perform a review of the literature and

Veterans Affairs committee  Almost certainly he was. There is no more logical or likely explanation for what happened to Clayton Matchee. He was floridly psychotic in the days to weeks prior to the killing of Shidane Arone. Had the Somalia Commission of Inquiry investigated the role of mefloquine, interview

Veterans Affairs committee  Canadian mefloquine veterans have been fairly consistent in recent years in calling for three things that they need from the Canadian government: acknowledgement, outreach and research, in that order. As I mentioned initially, acknowledgement is the single most important thing

Veterans Affairs committee  There is no question that mefloquine use causes long-term, psychiatric and neurologic symptoms. Now, there is a question of what percentage of individuals who took mefloquine correctly—meaning, they discontinued the drug at the first onset of any neurologic or psychiatric sympt

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, they would be.

Veterans Affairs committee  The simple answer is no. However, your question raises a broader point. If we are acknowledging that there is alcohol use in theatre and if we are acknowledging that there is some degree of recreational drug use in theatre—and I certainly hope that's not the case, very commonly—

Veterans Affairs committee  Let's assume that we all recognize this, and let's assume, furthermore, that the Department of National Defence recognizes this. Let's suppose further that the Department of National Defence recognizes and acknowledges that symptoms such as insomnia, anxiety and depression will b

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. This committee, several years ago, heard, either in person or in written briefs, from at least two witnesses describing the symptoms that Clayton Matchee had been experiencing in the weeks prior to the killing of Shidane Arone. He had been actively hallucinating, having visu

Veterans Affairs committee  I think that standard of proof is adequate for these purposes.

Veterans Affairs committee  Our group, The Quinism Foundation, has made our recommendation to the Canadian government very clear—and we do represent Canadian veterans and Canadian constituents. In a press release published on September 19, 2018, we called on Veterans Affairs Canada to screen recent Canadian