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Moreover, the Eighth Amendment prohibits "cruel and unusual punishments." Involuntarily administering dangerous drugs is a serious criminal offense. Yet at Guantanamo, "the US military routinely administered doses of mefloquine to detainees" on arrival "without medical justification" and no regard for their well-being.
Prophylactic adult dosage is 250 mg once a week. Administering 1,250 mg (to malaria free detainees) is indicated for mild to moderate malaria. Mefloquine is inappropriate in treating severe malaria cases, disease not caused by P. vivax or mefloquine-susceptible P. falciparum strains, or patients who previously used the drug.
Moreover, the higher the dose, the severer the side effects, yet "(v)ery few medical records have ever been released for GTMO detainees, and those (available) are heavily redacted and may be incomplete" to conceal the true harm done. Available documents, however, reveal over-dosing with very likely severe, long-lasting neuropsychological side effects.
GTMO Medical "Infection Control" SOP 021 states 1,250 mg of mefloquine will be included in "empiric therapies." Medically it refers to administering treatment prior to a firm diagnosis, but doing it routinely in high doses is criminal malfeasance. Omitting medical evaluation, compounds the offense.
"Despite professional medical/health organizations denouncing the use of mefloquine for empiric treatment, (Pentagon authorities) mandated that detainees receive a full (1,250 mg dose) upon arrival."
"According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there is no malaria in Cuba," and it doesn't threaten Guantanamo, according to an official memorandum on the "Department of Defense Operation Use of Mefloquine." Moreover, the Pentagon understands its effects, doesn't administer it to US GTMO personnel, and is aware of 1950s quinolines experimentation as part of the CIA's MKULTRA, its mind control program, addressed in an earlier article accessed through the following link:
Begun in 1953, it was to perfect a truth drug for interrogating suspected Soviet spies. It aimed to control human behavior through psychedelic and hallucinogenic drugs, electroshock, radiation, graphology, paramilitary techniques, and psychological/sociological/anthropological methods, among others - a vast open-field of mind experimentation to find whatever worked, legal or otherwise on willing and unwitting subjects. Some were so gravely affected, they never recovered.
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