We take way less vacation and have far more financial uncertainty and more bills (more complexity and more to keep track of just to get by), so our background l

We take way less vacation and have far more financial uncertainty and more bills (more complexity and more to keep track of just to get by), so our background level of stress is probably higher on average than in, say, most Western European states. There may be other reasons that affect it more, but I'd fully expect that to be enough to result in more self-medication, all else being equal.