WRITTEN ARTICLE ON SURVEY OF; INCREASING CONCEPT AND DEPENDENCY OF SELF-MEDICATION
This survey was conducted by Miss Dania Fatima on the topic "Increasing concept and dependency of self medication". Miss dania was facilitated by her team leads, Aymen Arif ( Program Manager at SBA), Hira Jamil ( Executive member at SBA) and Khalid Baloch (Founder,CEO & Trainer at SBA). INTRODUCTION Self‑medication has traditionally been defined as “the taking of drugs, herbs or home remedies on one’s own initiative, or on the advice of another person, without consulting a doctor. As it is a very prevailing issue, through this article we tried to explain the dependency of self-medication which is leading cause to severe problems like resistance to antibiotics, misdiagnosis, prolonged illness, and adverse side effects on the human body systems. Through this survey we tried to gather data and analyse the rate of dependency on self-medication and self-diagnosis in people belonging to mediocre family background and tried to find the root cause of this prevailing is...