Tomás Mario Avalos-Ruvalcaba, Germán Zavala Galaviz
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Self-medication is a practice that is misguided by marketing and without permanent monitoring by drug regulatory authorities, which can cause serious damage to the health of the individual, the family and the community. The risks of self-medication occur mainly when the patient consumes prescription medicines that are sold freely. For this reason, it is important to know and study this behaviour in our social environment, so that problems can be identified and therefore strategies can be designed to improve the conditions that require it. The study of the practice of self-medication in the university community is of great interest for two fundamental reasons. Firstly, because students will be the most qualified professionals in the future and will possibly exert a certain influence at all levels of their environment, not only professionally but also socially and culturally. Secondly, because the university environment offers multiple possibilities, from the academic and extra-academic sphere, to propose and carry out training, educational, informative and informative actions on the issue of self-medication.