Live and learn.....(again)

I should know better but ~ I did it again.  J had had so many surgeries ~ twice for his tonsils (and used some for his knee) that he was given A LOT of pain pills.  I had some left over too because of my surgery.  Well, I told him that I would monitor them and give them out accordingly.  It seemed to work.  It wasn't easy to hide them and give them out because it wasn't always convenient. So the first time I hid them ~ they were discovered and taken.  Scratching my head, however, I thought maybe i didn't hide them there.  So when he was give more ~ I hid them very, very well in my closet.  Or so I thought.  I was planning on taking them to the police station today to turn them in but ~ one bottle of Percocet was gone.  The Vicodin was really hidden and that wasn't discovered.  Crap.  I know his knee is still bothering him (he walks with a limp) and he may have been taking them appropriately but why would he not ask me if there were any left?  All I know is that there will be no more in our house.  Stupid ~ I should know better.......
*When I confronted him ~ he confessed.  Said he needed them but I wasn't around ~ and, anyway, he took them "a long time ago" (which might have been a month ago). Over 30 pills.  Well ~ there isn't anything I can do about it now.  At least I got rid of the rest of them.  Gotta let it go....