Talk:Codeine

Prescription drug driving impairment and legal penalties.

Laws have recently been introduced in this area in the UK. There is no information on the subject in this article about this anywhere in the world. Should the ignorance of the possibility of driving impairment due to 'normal' use of prescription codeine and the possible legal penalties be included in this article? This is complicated by the fact the the UK legal limit is in metabolised opium per litre of blood, which will vary due to genetic differences.

Codeine and allergic cough

Codeine definitely helps allergic cough too, as well as cough caused by mucus, in the throat, and so on. I dont see that explicitly stated anywhere in the article, so I was thinking it should be added. Also, chronic cough it definitely helps with.

About the side effects, it can cause vomiting too, but this is not stated. At high doses, it can even cause Gastritis, inflammation of the stomach. Noam111g (talk) 03:21, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Codeine and barbiturates

In the History section, the article talks about "codeine-based barbiturates" and then goes on to list a number of different barbiturate drugs. However, the connection between these and codeine is not expanded upon in any way. Even clicking the links to the articles about the specific barbiturates doesn't yield any information, as none of those articles make any mention of codeine. I think the problem is with the phrase "codeine-based barbiturates" which would seem to indicate that a codeine molecule is connected to a barbiturate molecule, when that does not appear to be the case for any of these. Is it talking about preparations where codeine is combined with a barbiturate? If so, none of the specific articles on the barbiturates themselves mention formulations containing codeine, so I'm left wondering where this phrase came from. Lumberjane Lilly (talk) 17:40, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Isn`t 'Legal status' unduly long?

I`m a lamer, I don`t undestand wikipedia`s hiden universe and etc, I`m terribly sorry for this invasion. But why does this chapter exist in that exact way? I don't think the data on time-to-time changing local laws should be there. In fact, it`s useles - I cheked for Latvia (cus I`m patriot) and Co-Codamol is now only sold by prescription and 30mg. If they need that data for purpose, they still can`t relate without doublechecking - no sense found. And I also can`t just delete, it will be "-1000 & undo" P.S. I know rules about spam and questioning newbies, but I realy don`t know is this topic spam one or not - will pray for my IP not to be blocked. 83.99.184.149 (talk) 07:15, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Ultrarapid metabolizers and Gideon Koren

This article has several lines related to ultra-rapid metabolizers and lactation, with one line in particular citing a paper by Gideon Koren, who has been involved in some substantial controversies.

Based on the issues described in these articles ( ), is this information still considered to be correct or does it need to be removed/revised? --Posted by Pikamander2 (Talk) at 13:04, 29 January 2026 (UTC)