Codeine

The government has banned 14 fixed dose combination drugs including Nimesulide and Paracetamol dispersible tablets and Chlopheniramine Maleate and Codeine syrup citing there is "no therapeutic justification" for these medicines.

Police have arrested four persons and seized from them bottles of cough syrup containing codeine, a banned narcotic drug, worth Rs 9.30 lakh in Thane district of Maharashtra, an official said on Sunday.

According to the memo, the seeds come from poppy plants, a commercial crop cultivated by the drug and food industries for pharmaceuticals and spices. The seeds can become contaminated with morphine and codeine during the harvest.

The Narcotics Control Bureau's Mumbai unit seized 8,640 Codeine-based cough syrup bottles in Maharashtra's Thane. Acting on an input, the Mumbai NCB unit intercepted a car on Agra-Mumbai highway. The car driver has been arrested.

At least six persons including a doctor have been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle Codeine Based Cough Syrup (CBCS) across the Indo-Bangladesh border, a senior officer of NCB, Kolkata Zone, said on Saturday.

Bottles of drugs Codeine Phosphate and Triprolidine Hydrochloride Syrup were found behind the big sacks of potatoes in a truck.

US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc's India unit said on Monday it had stopped selling its popular Corex cough syrup, after regulators banned it saying it was likely to pose a risk to humans.

Codeine, a widely prescribed painkiller, can also be purchased over the counter in preparations of cold/cough remedies but over consumption of such medicines can lead to a -confususional- state and loss of the ability to create new memories, says a new study.

In the study involving over 500 patients in Canada, the researchers found that more than half (52 per cent) of women and a third (38 per cent) of men reported doctor-prescribed painkillers as their first contact with opioid drugs, a family of drugs which include prescription medicines such OxyContin and codeine, as well as illicit drugs such as her...

Indian regulators are privately pressuring major drug firms to better police how they sell popular codeine-based cough syrups to tackle smuggling and addiction, a move that is reducing supplies of a medicine doctors say is an effective treatment.

Codeine is a standard ingredient in cough remedies, but it seems to be no more effective than an inactive placebo compound.

The government has banned 14 fixed dose combination drugs including Nimesulide and Paracetamol dispersible tablets and Chlopheniramine Maleate and Codeine syrup citing there is "no therapeutic justification" for these medicines.

Police have arrested four persons and seized from them bottles of cough syrup containing codeine, a banned narcotic drug, worth Rs 9.30 lakh in Thane district of Maharashtra, an official said on Sunday.

According to the memo, the seeds come from poppy plants, a commercial crop cultivated by the drug and food industries for pharmaceuticals and spices. The seeds can become contaminated with morphine and codeine during the harvest.

The Narcotics Control Bureau's Mumbai unit seized 8,640 Codeine-based cough syrup bottles in Maharashtra's Thane. Acting on an input, the Mumbai NCB unit intercepted a car on Agra-Mumbai highway. The car driver has been arrested.

At least six persons including a doctor have been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle Codeine Based Cough Syrup (CBCS) across the Indo-Bangladesh border, a senior officer of NCB, Kolkata Zone, said on Saturday.

Bottles of drugs Codeine Phosphate and Triprolidine Hydrochloride Syrup were found behind the big sacks of potatoes in a truck.

US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc's India unit said on Monday it had stopped selling its popular Corex cough syrup, after regulators banned it saying it was likely to pose a risk to humans.

Codeine, a widely prescribed painkiller, can also be purchased over the counter in preparations of cold/cough remedies but over consumption of such medicines can lead to a -confususional- state and loss of the ability to create new memories, says a new study.

In the study involving over 500 patients in Canada, the researchers found that more than half (52 per cent) of women and a third (38 per cent) of men reported doctor-prescribed painkillers as their first contact with opioid drugs, a family of drugs which include prescription medicines such OxyContin and codeine, as well as illicit drugs such as her...

Indian regulators are privately pressuring major drug firms to better police how they sell popular codeine-based cough syrups to tackle smuggling and addiction, a move that is reducing supplies of a medicine doctors say is an effective treatment.

Codeine is a standard ingredient in cough remedies, but it seems to be no more effective than an inactive placebo compound.