How addicted is the world becoming to antibiotics and are we daring nature to throw us a curve with our reduced immunity as a result?

Every drug store (more like Super centres) I see rows and rows of stuff and I keep wondering who the hell is buying it all. Have we become a society of pill-popping paranoid people at the mercy of every lotion, cream, ointment, ..somebody is getting rich or marketing up a storm. Or is there a need for all this industrial powerful poison, (in my opinion it is mostly a waste)