Home > Drug & Alcohol Addiction Treatment > Are You Addicted to Opioids? Take This Quiz More Articles Are You Addicted to Opioids? Take This Quiz Do you suspect your opioid use may be crossing over into addiction? This self-assessment will help you take the next steps. Article by: Kathleen Smith, PhD, LPC Are you worried that you might be hooked on painkillers? Have you started using heroin and fear for your health and safety? Answer the quiz questions below to find out if you might be addicted to opioids. Instructions: Below is a list of questions that reflect symptoms common among people who are addicted to opioids. Read each question carefully, and then choose how often you’ve experienced the same or similar challenges in the past few months. Note: This quiz is not a substitute for a proper diagnosis from a health care professional. If you think you may have a problem with opioids, we encourage you to schedule an appointment with your doctor or other mental health professional. Your privacy is important to us. All results are completely anonymous. Do you use opioids in increasingly larger amounts, or use them more frequently than when you started? Never Rarely Sometimes Often Very Often Have you ever tried to stop using opioids or limit your use and failed? Never Rarely Sometimes Often Very Often Do you spend a lot of time tracking down opioids or recovering from using them? Never Rarely Sometimes Often Very Often Do you frequently crave opioids or think about using? Never Rarely Sometimes Often Very Often Do you continue to use opioids, even when it causes problems with loved ones? Never Rarely Sometimes Often Very Often Does using opioids have negative effects on your work, school, or other areas of life? Never Rarely Sometimes Often Very often Do you use opioids in situations that could be physically hazardous to you or others, such as driving, operating machinery, or taking care or children? Never Rarely Sometimes Often Very Often Do you find that you must need larger amounts of opioids to achieve the same high? Never Rarely Sometimes Often Very Often Do you spend less time engaging in social or recreational activities because of your opioid use? Never Rarely Sometimes Often Very Often Do you experience withdrawal symptoms when you cut back on opioid use, such as depressed mood, nausea, vomiting, muscle pains, runny nose, sweating, diarrhea, fever, or insomnia? Never Rarely Sometimes Often Very Often Email I acknowledge that Remedy Health will use my information to provide eNewsletters and marketing. I understand I can withdraw permission for this at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the footer of any email I receive from Remedy Health. Remedy Health uses third party service providers like MailChimp, Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, and ObjectLabs Corporation (mLab), to store data. My information may be transferred to the aforementioned service providers (or other similar services) for processing in accordance with their privacy policies. Last Updated: Jan 10, 2020 You may also like:Juuling and Teenagers: Why Vaping is a Dangerous TrendThe Dangers of Synthetic DrugsGambling Addiction: Stats, Symptoms, and Treatment OptionsMethamphetamineTeenage Cell Phone Addiction: Are You Worried About Your Child?Internet Addiction Disorder
