Self-medication constitutes a transcultural practice, which extent covers population fromevery age. That practice revolves around the vaguest conception of self-care or biologic welfare conservation, of illness prevention and health promotion. However, this increasingly popular phenomenon, despite the best intentions from its users, can be just as harmful as not treating conditions that actually represent a health threat. This fact opens up the road for interrogations in the scientific field, around the empirical evidences that exist about self-medication. This article intends to present and introduce an analysis of a set of variables more frequently studied by scientific literature, since year 2000 to the present, about self-medication behavior. It is possible then, to come up with two different kinds of conclusions with this bibliometric review, which allow us to reassert the global establishment of self-medication phenomenon, and to know the constant tendency of variables tied to this high-risk behavior to the person who practices it.
