Addiction Information and Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center

A Forever Recovery can help you with a drug addiction. Codeine is an opiate that is used to treat mild to moderate pain. Codeine can be habit forming and should be kept away from someone who has a past drug abuse problem. You should not use Codeine with sedatives, narcotic pain medicine, tranquilizers, muscle relaxers and drugs that make you sleepy because the side effects could be very dangerous. You should not drink alcohol while you are taking Codeine it could cause serious side effects or it could even cause death. There are serious overdose symptoms like: Weak pulse Shallow breathing Fainting Stop breathing If you have a drug dependency to codeine there could be physical and mental problems that develop. Codeine is the most used opiate in the world. Codeine does not work until it is inside the human body and then it starts to metabolize. Then when the codeine hit’s the liver it then starts turning into morphine and then it will absorb in your blood stream to start … [Read more...]