This week Jessica Flanigan joins us to discuss the rights of self-medication; rights to purchase and use unapproved treatments, prohibited drugs, and pharmaceuticals without a prescription. As Jessica describes in her most recent publication in Cato Unbound, “For most patients, rights of self-medication needn’t change how they make medical decisions. After all, rights of self-medication do not preclude patients from consulting with physicians or using only government-certified drugs. But if patients had rights of self-medication they would be free to make intimate and personal decisions about their bodies that reflected their values rather than the values of a physician or public official.”

Further Readings/References:

Pharmaceutical Freedom: Why Patients Have a Right to Self Medicate Book by Jessica Flanigan

More about Jessica Flanigan

Respect Patients’ Choices to Self-Medicate by Jessica Flanigan

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