The problem of antibiotic resistance is not prescribing too many antibiotics—it is prescribing too many of the wrong antibiotics, and too many antibiotics being fed to animals. Amoxicillin has been routinely prescribed to people as the standard-of-care for infections, without regard for the pathogen, causing potentiation of immortal infections and antibiotic resistance. Animals are fed 80% of all the antibiotics used in the United States, causing people to acquire antibiotic resistant pathogens by eating the animals and animal products.
Macrolide and cycline antibiotics have a much lower antibiotic-resistance profile than penicillin and amoxicillin, are more effective at treating or controlling immortal infections, and should NOT ever be used in animals, to avoid the development of antibiotic resistance. The minimal increase in cost for macrolide and cycline antibiotic prescriptions is justified, to avoid worsening or triggering a chronic disease; and to limit the spread of antibiotic resistant pathogens.
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