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I am so sorry you seem to be being punished for seeking help with what you thought was prescription addiction.  I agree with the suggestion to find alternative ways to find relief, but having lived with back pain for 40 years, and having five spinal surgeries since the mid 1960s, I think you may need some pain medicine as well.  If you are not getting a positive response from your pain specialist, perhaps you should try to find another one.  One suggestion I have is to see about an intrathecal pump, which I have had since 2000 and can honestly say is the only thing that has allowed me to manage my pain.  I know everyone is not a good candidate for this, and I don't know all the medicines that can be used in it.  Mine is implanted in my abdomen, so I can't feel it and have nothing to do with it except go to the pain specialist every two months to have it filled.  My pump delivers morphine and bupivicaine for pain management and baclafen for spasticity for the MS I was diagnosed with about 15 years ago.  It might be a good solution for you since you cannot change the dosage and you get a steady delivery of medicine so you don't get the periods where the medicine is beginning to work and when you are getting ready to need more medicine, both times when you are in more pain. I don't understand the big controversy about people in chronic pain becoming addicted, I never feel high when I take pain meds, although I might feel a little tired when I take them orally, but I know I feel terrible pain when I don't take them.  I wish you all the best, Denise