O USO IRRACIONAL DE MEDICAMENTOS E SUAS CONSEQUÊNCIAS

Abstract

The theme of the research in question is on the irrational use of medicines. The objective is to evaluate this use and its consequences, as well as the ease that one has today to have access to them without proper medical prescription. The problem chosen and researched was to understand the indiscriminate use of medications without proper prescription and non-observance and user awareness regarding self-medication. The applied methodology was carried out, through consultations with the collection of the virtual health library (VHL), in the databases Literatura Latino-Americano and Scientific Eletrônica Online (SCIELO) Brazil. The theoretical references that will give clues to the theme will be constructed based on the readings of: Bueno, Costa, Carvalho, Henriques and Chaves. The main conclusion is the importance of pharmaceutical care in this sense.