Script
A doctor's prescription.
Sedatives
Medicines with calming and relaxing properties.
Self-selection
Freedom for patients to examine and select medicines without assistance.
Self-medication
Term used to describe the practice of self-treatment without consultation with a doctor; also used as a description for medicines obtained without a doctor's prescription.
Self-prescription
The inappropriate practice of using prescription medicines without medical supervision (also 'under the counter').
Semi-ethical
Medicines which can be reimbursed by doctor's prescription and which can also be purchased over-the-counter.
Self-regulation
Effective pharmaceutical industry self-regulation through codes of practice or codes of conduct.
SMASA
Self-Medication Manufacturers Association of South Africa.
SMI
New Zealand Self-Medication Industry Association.
Smoking Cessation aids
Gums, patches, inhalers and other aids designed to help smokers to quit the habit.
SPMA
The Slovenian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association.
Systemic
Affecting the entire body. Systemic treatment is treatment or therapy that reaches and affects cells throughout the body.
TELEM
Israel Association of Nonprescription Medicine.
TCM
Traditional Chinese Medicine.
TGA
Therapeutic Goods Administration Australia's regulatory agency for medical drugs and devices.
Therapy
A generic term used to describe the application of any medical, psychiatric, psychological or alternative designed to promote health and well-being.
Therapeutic good
A ‘therapeutic’ good is essentially a product for use in, or in connection with, the prevention, diagnosis, cure or treatment of human disease; or in testing susceptibility for a disease; or in the replacement or modification of parts of the human anatomy.
TM
Traditional Medicine (often Herbals).
TPMMA
Pharmaceutical Marketing & Management Association, WSMI member association in Taipei.
Tonics
Liquid preparations offering a combination of vitamins, minerals and other active ingredients.
Topical
Pertaining to the surface of the body; "a medicine for topical (or local) application".
