Since about 1960, an increasing number of authorities and investigators have accepted the view that self-medication is unlikely to disappear. The main reasons for its persistence and for tolerating its further existence have been reviewed extensively. The main arguments usually advanced in favor of this view may however be briefly recapitulated here:

1. Self-medication is more readily (), more convenient, and in some countries still cheaper than professional help in relieving certain minor symptoms and ailments.

2. Self-medication keeps the individual ()in times when he would otherwise be quite unnecessarily indisposed by indigestion, headache, or constipation.