That was my first thought. My local Costco sells 1000 tablets of Paracetamol for $8.49.
I've bought several thousand pills of OTC pain relievers in the past year to keep a bottle in my car, my office, at home, and so on. I've only taken maybe 10 pills over the course of a year.
I do agree that the country is over-medicating in general, though. The focus on customer satisfaction and patient review scores for doctors has created bad incentives for doctors to "do something" by prescribing pills instead of pushing for natural interventions (diet changes, exercise, reducing screen time, going to bed earlier)
