[SolomonQ]

I know this forum is mainly the domain of the hospital pharmacists but so sorry to intrude, but I was wondering at the feasabilty of codeine linctus use in pain.

as everyone knows (hopefully) codeine phosphate tablets are licensed for use in pain management, and they come normally in the form of tablets, which are classed as POM. Codeine linctus on the other hand is a P medicine, and it contains 5mg codeine phosphate per 5ml. (strongest codeine tablets ive seen are 30mg). now the two ingredients are the same but no where in the literature for codeine linctus ive seen it being recommended for pain and even the bottle only mentions it as anti-tuissive.

I understand the dangers of additions to the linctus, but i dont understand the apparent absence of this information, or is it something im missing, i would underatnd if the codeine salt form in the linctus was different but even thats the same, so anyone can enlighten me on this please?