A study shows that more than half of slum dwellers are prone to visit private practitioners or seek self-medication with medicines available in the home.
Since these phytochemicals often have antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal and antihelminthic properties, a plausible case can be made for self-medication by animals in the wild.
Those attending the demonstration were instructed to show up in their bathrobe and slippers, bring their meds, and also bring any legal form of self-medication they have.
An alternative explanation also based on opioid antagonist studies states that kleptomania is similar to the self-medication model, in which stealing stimulates the persons natural opioid system.
