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self-medication

[ self-med-i-key-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.


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Example Sentences

As the years passed, I figured out how to mitigate these rough patches through self-medication.

In this day of self-medication this condition is all the greater menace to the diabetic.

The therapeutic indications and properties may be stated, provided such statements do not suggest self-medication.

Here then, we have sold for self-medication an extremely poisonous drug, with no warning of the risk the public runs in using it.

And you will find it cheaper in the end than self-medication with worthless "patent" nostrums.

The American people were slaves to self-medication, and the patent-medicine makers had it all their own way.

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