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Jaya John Varghese
Shinde Sonal
Self medication is a human behavior in which an individual uses a substance or any exogenous influence to self administer treatment for physical or psychological ailments. The most widely sel f medicated substances are over –the-counter drugs used to treat comm on health issues at home. Self -medication is often seen as gaining personal independence from established medicine and it can be seen as human right, implicit in or closely related to the right to refuse professional medical treatment. In India, though the phrase ‘ove r the counter drugs’ has no legal recognition, so all the drugs not included in the list of ‘prescription drugs’ are considered as OTC drugs Objectives: