codeine

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• “Well, it’s codeine,” the doctor replied, according to Parker.

• Parker, who is 34, was transported to the hospital in an ambulance and was given a week’s worth of the opiate codeine as part of his treatment.

• Some metabolize codeine quite poorly and have inadequate pain control as a result.

• Codeine should not have been prescribed for these patients because its metabolism in children varies widely from person to person.

• Hundreds of thousands of kids were given codeine during ER visits from 2001 to 2010, despite warnings of its danger.

• Because of the wide variability in codeine metabolism, its use as a cough suppressant is not recommended.

• “Junk,” we learn, refers to opium and its derivatives: morphine, heroin, pantopon, Dilaudid, codeine.

• In 1832 Robiquet discovered codeine; and in 1833 atropine, aconitine, and hyoscyamine were distinguished by Geiger and Hesse.

• Other salts of Codeine are not described because used substantially as the above.

• Morphine is the chief active principle, and codeine and heroin are the chief derivatives of morphine.

• Codeine is one eighth the strength of morphine; heroin is three times as strong as morphine.

• is a mild hypnotic which may be used in doses about twice as large as those of morphine.