Even here in the UK, we don't call medicine 'drugs' - when someone refers to drugs here they nearly only mean illegal drugs. As school kids we had the same tho

Even here in the UK, we don't call medicine 'drugs' - when someone refers to drugs here they nearly only mean illegal drugs. As school kids we had the same thought about 'drug stores' - and I even found it amusing when a Pharmacy/beauty shop opened called 'Superdrug' - seemed such an odd turn of phrase to someone who had only heard of drugs as the illegal and dangerous things...