Pholcodine now largely replaces the previously more common codeine linctus, as it has a much lower potential for dependence.
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In the UK, our equivalent is'Simple Linctus .'Something one gets from the drugstore that contains sucrose and citric acid.
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Codeine linctus of 15 mg per 5 ml is also available at some pharmacies, although a purchaser would have to request it specifically from the pharmacist.
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Frequently, customers buying larger-than-usual doses of [ P ] medicines ( such as DXM, promethazine, codeine or Gee's linctus ) will be queried, due to the possibility of abuse.
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Preparations containing pure codeine ( e . g ., codeine phosphate tablets or codeine phosphate linctus ) are available on prescription and are considered S8 ( Schedule 8, or " Controlled Drug Possession without authority illegal " ).
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Codeine is also marketed in cough syrups with zero to a half-dozen other active ingredients, and a linctus ( " e . g ., " " Paveral " ) for all of the uses for which codeine is indicated.
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I can not rule out the placebo effect totally, because a spoon full of Simple Linctus just goes down the gullet where as a tumbler ( about 1 / 3 of a pint ) of warm sweet lemon tea is more enjoyable and may therefore, have put me in a more optimistic frame of mind.
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To perform a relatively crude acetylation to turn the morphine into heroin and related drugs immediately prior to use is known as AAing ( for Acetic Anhydride ) or home-bake, and the output of the procedure also known as home-bake or, Blue Heroin ( not to be confused with Blue Magic heroin, or the linctus known as Blue Morphine or Blue Morphone, or the Blue Velvet mixture described above ).
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