A lot of the drugs are for simple maladies that can be handled with over the counter medicine.
A lot of the drugs are for “lifestyle” induced maladies that changes in lifestyle can fix. But, in the U.S. instead of kicking their overweight kid out to the park every day, they’ll get a doctor to prescribe a “weight loss” drug. Or they’ll wait till the kid develops type 2 diabetes and then they’ll spend even more on drugs.