and i obtained about fifteen hundred pages of documents internal safety documents from roche pharmaceuticals bush pharmaceuticals the company that manufactures lariam these internal safety documents showed the company quietly tracking reports of suicidal behavior among people who were taking the drug really really frightening stuff violent stuff. and that company was clearly quietly paying very close attention to people who were taking this drug and then inexplicably hurting themselves or other people and that's when we knew we were really on to something. in two thousand and two the f.d.a. required roche to revise their packaging insert for lariam the new revised label warned methyl could make cause psychiatric symptoms in a number of patients ranging from exile paranoia and depression to hallucinations and psychotic behavior it also warned that on occasions these symptoms have been reported to continue long after mefloquine has been stopped rare cases of suicidal ideation and suicide have been reported the no relationship to drug administration has been confirmed. but then roche says. some pati