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Medication of oneself without professional supervision to alleviate an illness or condition, as by using an over-the-counter drug or preparation.

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self			quot;Many of these conditions can be considered diseases of the aged, a category of patients that, because of their stage of life and limitations stemming from disease morbidity, tend to be less ambulatory and less able to reliably self-medicate than other patient groups. Transdermal Drug Delivery Pursuing Sustained Growth Opportunities in ... by Mark Smith / Health, general community Medication is being given to people thought to be particularly vulnerable, while less serious cases will be sent home to self-medicate. Swine flu spreading; COMMENT by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England) Horden had told his trial that he had been bitten by a dog, the wound had turned septic and that, scared to visit a doctor, he decided to self-medicate. Drug dealer loses appeal court bid by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)			self-interest self-interested Self-involution self-involved self-justification Self-justifier self-justifying Self-kindled Self-knowing self-knowledge Self-life self-limited self-limiting self-liquidating self-loader self-loading self-locking self-love self-loving Self-luminous self-made self-made man self-mailer self-management self-mastery Self-medicate self-medication Self-mettle self-mockery self-mortification Self-motion self-motivated Self-moved Self-moving Self-murder Self-murderer self-mutilation self-neglect Self-neglecting self-observation Self-one self-opinion self-opinionated Self-opinioned self-ordained self-organisation self-organization Self-originating self-parody Self-partiality self-perception			Self-luminous self-made Self-Made Critic Self-Made Man self-magnifying self-mailer self-mailing Self-Maintenance Period Self-Managed Action Learning Self-Managed Clustering Self-Managed Work Group Self-Managed Work Team Self-management Self-Management And Recovery Training self-management approach Self-management socialism Self-management socialism Self-management socialism Self-management socialism self-managing Self-Managing Computer System Self-Managing Distributed System Self-Masked Dry Etching self-mastery self-mastery Self-Measured Plasma Glucose Self-Measurement for the Assessment of the Response to Trandolapril self-measurement of blood pressure Self-medicate Self-medicating Self-medicating self-medication self-medication self-medication history case Self-mettle self-mockery self-mocking Self-Modeling Curve Resolution Self-Modifiable Color Petri Net self-modification assistance self-modification assistance self-modification assistance Self-Modifying Evolving Probabilistic Hypergraph Self-Modulated Laser Wakefield Accelerator Self-Monitored Pain Intensity self-monitoring exercises Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring Report Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology self-mortification Self-motion Self-motion self-motivated self-motivating self-motivation Self-Mounting floppy disk Image Self-moved self-moving

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