Are opiates contained by codene?
Answer:
Codeine is a direct derivative of morphine; it is also known as "methyl-morphine." Codeine is inherently found in opium, contained by concentrations of about 0.4% - 3.0%.
Codeine surrounded by itself, is not active contained by the body, but it's effects result from the fact that it is slowly converted into morphine, usually surrounded by the liver. Typically, at any one time, only 10% of the codeine within the body has be converted into morphine; thus codeine is less addictive than morphine.
Around 5% of the US population (myself included) are incompetent to properly metabolize codeine into morphine, thus it has little or no effect as a local anaesthetic for them.
Other common derivatives of morphine are oxy-codone, hydromorphone, and diacetylmorphine (heroin)
~Donkey Hotei
Yep. Also within: Percidan, Oxycontin, Morphine, and of course, apposite old Heroin.