You can't just keep taking the same pills day in day out. This causes addiction, and your tolerance builds so you end up taking more and more pills. I treat my chromic debilitating pain with high grade pot/honey oil, and avoid pills as much as possible. When I do take pills I do not take them for more than 3 days in a row before going back to smoking pot, and then the next time I change the pill. I have been able to get several folks off of the pills by providing them concentrated honey oil that is as potent as Oxicontin..