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The article focuses on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba-based U.S. prison where detainees were forced to take in antimalarial drug mefloquine. It says that military personnel administered mefloquine despite Pentagon's knowledge that it causes severe neuropsychiatric side effects. It tells that Army Staff Sergeant Joe Hickman who was at the prison in 2006 has presented evidence that shows the three prisoner who committed suicide could not have died by hanging, but because they were given mefloquine.

The article discloses the controversy surrounding the pharmacologic waterboarding treatment of suspected terrorist detainees at U.S. military facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This form of waterboarding uses the antimalarial drug mefloquine. The Department of Defense (DoD) said that the drug is associated with the death of 3 Guantanamo prisoners in June 2006 and which is being probed by U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Joe Hickman. The drug is approved despite warnings by the DoD that it can initiate mental side effects like suicidal thoughts and hallucinations.