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Self Medication

"Self Medication" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The self administration of medication not prescribed by a physician or in a manner not directed by a physician.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Self Medication" by people in this website by year, and whether "Self Medication" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 6 publications over 4 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2007 and 2011
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