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Answer for the clue "Substance in some cough syrups ", 7 letters:
codeine

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Codeine was an American indie rock band formed in 1989. They released two full-length albums— Frigid Stars LP in 1990 and The White Birch in 1994. The band broke up in 1994 shortly after the release of The White Birch , but made a small reunion in 2012. ...

Usage examples of codeine.

I highly recommend codeine and acetaminophen for putting your cares behind you.

Bolger and Miss Ryan had a codeine at a quarter to five, and Miss Freitz in four-eleven had a heparin and dextran about an hour later.

Fortunately, codeine is a rather mild narcotic, not nearly so powerful as what the Junkman took in by smoking.

Thus, in experimental animals the phenolic hydroxyl group of morphine has been shown to be susceptible to methylation both in vivo and in vitro, with the resultant formation of codeine.

There were antibiotics, anti-inflammatory medication, anabolic steroids, including a full course of prednisone, and at least ten different types of pain medication, including codeine and morphine.

Ask for a pain-killer and they give you something with a bit of codeine and a trace of phenacetin as though it were morphia, and practically make you sign the poison book.

Never take any sleeping powders except upon the advice of a physician, for the majority of these sleeping powders contain some harmful drug, as morphine, codeine, phenacetin or acetanilid.

A tiny percentage of codeine gets metabolized into good old C17-morphine, affording an agonizing hint of what real relief from The Bird might feel like.

When, then, even the funds for the codeine syrup were exhausted, he still sat on the toilet of the rear stall of the A.

He kept trying to ask his heart if just codeine would be a relapse, according to the heart, but his heart was declining to comment.

Gately, but he was being a man about it and had refused codeine downstairs at the E.

Morphine is also a metabolite of codeine, and when codeine is metabolized in the blood we get very low levels of morphine.

I put the notes in the folder labelled LYONS-BENNET, found some codeine in the bathroom, and took myself off to the bedroom of raspberry and Viking gold.

He stretched out on the couch and finally, with the help of the codeine for his pain, was able to drift off to sleep thinking of Angie.

I stretched out, calling piteously and frequently to the stewardesses for codeine and cold water.