DEFENCE ‘FORCED’: Army drug trial queried over soldier suicide deaths
Perhaps more tragic is that former Sergeant Kevin Frost is one of more than 400 Australian Defence Force members who have taken their own lives either while serving the country or after service since 2001.
The 45-year-old was reported missing from his Busselton home over the weekend, but his family later confirmed his body had been found.They told the ABC he had suffered from side effects linked to anti-malarial drug mefloquine, also known as Lariam, which was given to soldiers in East Timor.News.com.
He said the poisoning of Australian soldiers was part of a historical pattern that views deploying service members as “convenient test populations on whom many shortcuts have been taken”.“One of the tragedies is that it’s quite clear in retrospect that it should never have been licensed. It was simply too dangerous to be used. Evidence we interpret very plainly today was misinterpreted for nearly a quarter of a century.
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