Posted by ed_uk on March 5, 2005, at 11:01:27
In reply to Re: Codeine » ed_uk, posted by Larry Hoover on March 5, 2005, at 10:45:15
>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.
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