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Re: Codeine » ed_uk

Posted by Larry Hoover on March 5, 2005, at 12:09:01

In reply to Re: Codeine » Larry Hoover, posted by ed_uk on March 5, 2005, at 11:01:27

> >In the interest of thoroughness, Canada has a bizarre regulation that codeine cannot be in a medication unless there are at least two other active ingredients. For that reason, Canadian codeine tablets contain caffeine, as well as acetominophen or aspirin.
>
> Hi Lar,
>
> That's very weird! Don't you even have prescription-only codeine-only tablets? Our codeine tablets available on prescription come in 15mg, 30mg and 60mg strengths. Our OTC co-codamol 8/500 contains 8mg codeine and 500mg paracetamol, you can also get it with caffeine and various other drugs. Prescription-only co-codamol 30/500 contains 30mg codeine and 500mg paracetamol. A similar range of products containing dihydrocodeine are also available. We don't have Vicodin here, or anything else containing hydrocodone.
>
> Ed.

OK, I retract what I said. I just checked the Health Canada database, and codeine tablets and syrup are in there. I read it somewhere, though, to explain the presence of caffeine in those analgesic tablets. <shrug>

Lar

 

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