Back on the topic of hiding drugs, last year when I was living in the same building as neonfallout our rooms were drug caches. For a while I had like an ounce of weed just sitting in my drawer, 20 tabs of acid, grams of cocaine, grams of MDMA, xanax, nick's Vyvanse, god knows what else. It shifted back and forth between my room and neonfallout's. We'd joke around that if anyone ever opened our drawers we'd go to jail for the rest of our lives.
On the topic of use not abuse, you've gotta define abuse, dude. To some people a joint a month is abuse, to others three joints a day is "healthy use." I haven't used any drugs in about a month, so I'm pretty clearly not addicted, but does that clear me prior to stopping from your definition of abuse? Does taking MDMA once a month classify as abuse? What about cocaine every weekend? There's only one period in my life where I'll ever accept that maybe I was transitioning into the world of abuse, but I decided to stop doing cocaine for a while and now I've been clean (except for one occasion, which wasn't really a 'relapse' as much as it was a celebration) for four months. Do I plan on never doing cocaine again? No, but when I do, I'll be hyper-vigilant to avoid abuse. So, yeah, 'use not abuse' is pretty important in my book.
On the topic of painkillers, forget em. Literally no desire to do opiates ever again. I'm gonna try Kratom with neonfallout soon, but that's just because she wants to so bad.