In north America, people take far too many psychoactive drugs and painkillers. We're substituting for something we need and aren't getting.
I was at my sons football game last week and someone mentioned that they had drank a little too much wine the night before and had a headached. Every single one of the parents there had some sort of OTC painkiller with them. "Oh, I have some tylenol in my purse" "Ibuprofen in the glovebox" "Motrin in the gear bag" etc. I think we forget that these are painkillers too, and that we should read the directions and not take them for every little ache and pain. And really, the motrin was in the kids gear bag?