Doctor shopping

As you reach the highest dosage your doctor is ethically allowed to prescribe, you might consider finding another doctor. When people can’t seem to convince others to get what they want, they look for other people, right? “Doctor shopping” implies finding other doctors and visiting different hospital emergency rooms with all kinds of complaints about pain, just to obtain the medications your body needs in order to feel good again.

Changing the delivery system

Another serious warning sign could be the feeling that simply swallowing the medications won’t get you enough relief. In fact, given that your access to the medications you actually need could become increasingly limited, you might want to change the way you use them, either by crushing and snorting them or even injecting them.