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.

If their pain subsides, that's a tell-tale sign.

Hold on, let me ask my personal druggy supersaint and I'll get right back with you

Don't trust prescriptions. Doctors are lazy. Unless you are bed bound, you do not need them.

Opioids cause an overproduction of histamines which make your face extremely itchy.

And it will constipate you like crazy.

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..

It depends. Some people hide it better than others, but has this person changed at some point? If they are hiding it, they will lie about where they are going, where they been, what they been doing, etc.. Do they slur at times? Do they sleep a lot?