codeine
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Even though Horton hadn’t taken cough medicine, health officials say consuming poppy seed products can lead to positive results for morphine, codeine or both due to the sensitivity of the drug tests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024
I cannot prescribe codeine or morphine unless I have a special license that allows me to do it.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2024
Pharmacists welcomed the move, saying there was "insufficient robust evidence" for the benefits of codeine linctus for treating coughs safely.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2023
The Department of Defense testing regime differentiates between the presence of codeine or morphine from seeds and the same presence from drug use.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
Ptomaines are, for the most part, alkaloids generated during the process of putrefaction, and they closely resemble many of the vegetable alkaloids—veratrine, morphine, and codeine, for example—not only in chemical characters, but in physiological properties.
From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )
