I'm curious why you include antibiotics in your trusted medications list.

Over the past several years we've found that antibiotics have a huge impact on beneficial microbes in your body which then has downstream impacts on your health [0]. Oddly enough for the topic in this article exposure to antibiotics as a child may be linked to obesity[1]. They are also extremely over prescribed for things like viral illnesses [2].

I personally wouldn't take an antibiotic unless whatever malady I was suffering from was proven to not only be bacterial in origin but likely to progress without treatment.

Regarding your larger point some of the distrust of medications can be related to the fact that people know that medication producers' goal is to be profit for the most part.

Because they are for-profit the medicine producers can't be trusted to produce quality products or to produce products which resolve a problem rather than just reducing symptoms as long as the patient continues to pay for the medicine.

As with other problems we have a low trust society because it's a society built on for-profit enterprises rather than enterprises focused on doing the best thing for society.

0: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8756738/ 1: https://www.nature.com/articles/ijo2014180 2: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37876436/