In Greece, Italy and Spain, it is shockingly easy to buy antibiotics without a prescription, and self-medication is popular.

在希腊、意大利和西班牙，无需处方就可以非常容易地购买到抗生素，而且自己买药治病也非常普遍。

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Clinicians, like myself, tend to see addiction as a form of self-medication.

像我这样的临床医生倾向于把上瘾看作一种自我治疗。

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But it is the sheer volume of unregulated self-medication with single artemisinin tablets that threatens the efficacy of a whole generation of medicines.

但不受监管的自我服用单一青蒿素片剂的人数很多，这对整代药品的有效性产生严峻威胁。

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"It may be a form of self medication for the sometimes extreme anxiety that these people experience, " he said.

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Such openness about mental health issues -- and the self-medication that illegal drugs can provide -- has historically not always been the case in the African-American culture.

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"Patrick Duffy has a complex medical history and a number of background risk factors that indicated an increased risk of abuse of medication and self harm while in custody, " she said.

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