TITLE:
Review: Can Toxic Substances Initiate Psychotic Behavior? Part I. Antimalarial Drugs
AUTHORS:
Ilia Brondz
KEYWORDS:
Contaminated Medical Forms, Primaquine, Toxic Contaminants, Malaria, Toxic Stress Induced by Contaminated Medical Forms
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Preventive Medicine,
Vol.4 No.7,
July
29,
2014
ABSTRACT: During and after every military conflict or war, there appears to be rapports about military crimes which were done by
military and civil personal of conflicting sides. The basis of these offences
is different; however the common to these is psychological and psychical
background. The psychological background is an indoctrination of troopers that
all what they are doing is right, well for country, nation or defends religion,
or ideology. The life and property of enemy (opponent) are less worth than
their oven. But most important in this indoctrination is the direct or indirect
insurances about the absence of responsibility and promises about free for
punishment for these actions. These aspects are well known and well-studied.
The psychical background is less studied and more diverse; however in all cases
the components of stress are present. The stress can be physical, psychical or
toxic. The physical and psychical stress of engaged in military conflict personal
is well studied, its action both during the war and as postwar syndrome have
sufficient explanations. The action of intoxication especially by contaminants
in medical forms, or toxins to induce the criminal behavior of military
personal is nearly unstudied. The exceptions are alcohol, psychogenic
substances as narcotics, LSD and special doping agents. This paper presented
the evidences of additional toxic stress by contaminates in medical forms and
intoxication by toxins of military personal engaged in different conflicts
during last decades. The hypothesis about the influences of the additional
toxic stress by medication with low quality pharmaceutical forms and some
toxins on inducing the crimes generally and war crimes by military personal is
launched in the paper. In this part the investigation will be concentrated on
antimalarial drugs, especially on contaminated primaquine. Primaquine has a
special position in preventing malaria infection in areas of conflict on the
territories of endemic malaria. The possibility of induction of psychotic cases
which lead to uncontrolled by person its-self actions and which are of criminal
nature will be discussed, together with juridical responsibilities for these
actions.