"Possible Causes of Increased Domestic Violence among Military Veterans" by Shawn J. Gourley

You are very welcome and I agree. The point I am at, stop blaming the vets and turning them against each other. The only way this is going to be helped is to honestly look at everything and find the cause. And mefloquine appears to be a good possibility for answering many of the questions of things going on with veterans.

Not that I can find. And I looked. the testing occurred at Stateville Penitentiary near Joliet, Illinois and all of it is questionable. The drug somehow completely skipped phase III trials which most likely would have caught a lot of this before it was approved.

I took your question to Dr. Remmington Nevin. This was his response. "Hi Shawn. This is a very good question. I assume a range of prisoners were used as subjects — some were certainly sociopathic and many had a history of violence, as would be expected. Given that more common side effects such as anxiety and insomnia were missed during these early trials of the drug, I wouldn’t expect that potentially subtler symptoms — such as a change in personality, or a shift towards violence — would have been noted or attributed to the drug if these occurred. It is certainly an interesting observation and a relevant one at that."

You are very welcome. I love our veterans and being a spouse of a veteran I felt like this really needed to be brought to the attention of everyone. I hate when people of the cuff say something or hint towards veterans being a loose cannon. Yet, I myself was shocked at some of the findings when I started collecting all the literature. First, spouses commit acts of more domestic violence than veterans do, the extremely dark history of the anti-malaria pill that has been given to veterans like candy, and that some VA workers think up to 75% of PTSD is faked. The more they find with this anti-malaria pill, the more possible explanations of violence and noncombat veterans presenting with PTSD-like symptoms there are. And the more I learned the history of this drug was very upsetting that the military ever gave it to anyone who voluntarily served.