How to tell if someone is abusing painkillers?

Itchy nose

All your spare cash goes missing.

If they use pain killers at all, they are abusing them.

Missing jewelry

Depends what pain killers, how bad the abuse is, their method of doing the pain killers...


There is way too many questions to give you a definitive answer honestly.


Good chance someone is taking 4-8 lortabs Orally a day and you would have zero clue unless you saw them taking it.

Fast talking, pin hole eyes, itchy nose, erratic behavior followed by nodding off..

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Being close to someone makes you miss of the tell-tale signs of someone abusing pain killers.

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Abusing is different than being physically addicted, fyi.

Also, there is no for sure way to tell. Opiates effect everyone differently.

Abusing- droopy eyes and have a hard time staying awake. but some people get tons of energy and are hyper while on opiates. Some are constantly scratching all over body.

And honestly, most of the ones who abuse let you know at some point or another. They generally have issues with self control in other areas of their life too.

Addicted- if they are out of their pain pills, they will have watery eyes, will be yawning constantly, will complain about freezing one minute, and sweating the next, will have chills and goosebumps in the first few days, runny nose, and diarrhea.

Whenever I took too many loritabs, I was itching like crazy. Don't know if it was me, or it effects everyone like that. I gotta admit, I was drinking a good bit of beer, too.

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How to tell if someone is abusing painkillers?

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Painkillers develops mysterious bruises and changes their explanations

Painkillers becomes socially withdrawn

You ask painkillers if they're being abused and they say "yes"