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The Countess of Mar to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 7 November (HL Deb, col 1689) that a link between mefloquine and severe and persistent psychiatric symptoms has not been established, what assessment they have made of Lariam’s inclusion in the British Medical Journal’s Visual Summary for Psychotic disorders list as a possible cause of psychotic symptoms and the warnings in the Roche patient information leaflet that Lariam may cause serious mental problems.  HL3227

Question HL3227: tabled on 14 November 2017 and due for answer by 28 November 2017

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The Countess of Mar to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 7 November (HL Deb, col 1689) that a link between mefloquine and severe and persistent psychiatric symptoms has not been established, what assessment they have made of Lariam’s inclusion in the British Medical Journal’s Visual Summary for Psychotic disorders list as a possible cause of psychotic symptoms and the warnings in the Roche patient information leaflet that Lariam may cause serious mental problems.  HL3227
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