self-medication

[ self-med-i-key-shuhn ]

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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