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Essay Galaxy - CODEINE (C18 H2, NO3 H3PO4 1/2 H2O)
CODEINE (C18 H2, NO3 H3PO4 1/2 H2O)
Our team researched the drug Codeine.
We used several different sources to gather our information. We go information
from Jay Moser and Sue Peterson, our two local pharmacists. We researched
medical encyclopedias, journals, and magazines. Codeine is known medically as
methylmorphine. It is a drug derived from opium, a poppy plant. It was
discovered in 1832 by French chemist Pierre-Jean Robiquet. Codeine constitutes
about 0.5 to 2.5 percent of this plant substance. The drug has been in use since
the early 1900's and it shares most of the pharmacologic characteristics of
morphine, the other alkaloid in opium. Codeine is classified as a narcotic, it
has the same painkiller effect as morphine but is only one-sixth to one-tenth as
strong. Codeine occurs as a colorless or white crystals or as a white,
crystalline pow....
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