Codeine
Narcotics are drugs that alleviate physical pain, suppress coughing, alleviate diarrhea, and induce anesthesia. Natural narcotics are derived from the Opium poppy and synthetic narcotics are made to act like the major constituents of Opium (thebaine, morphine, codeine). Legal, synthetic narcotics such as OxyContin (oxycodone) and Vicodin (hydrocodone) are prescribed as pain-relievers but are often diverted for illegitimate uses. Heroin is an illegal narcotic, derived from morphine.
Methadone, oxycodone, vicodin, codeine...
Codeine
There are various types of narcotics that include prescription medications as well as street drugs such as cocaine. Narcotics are naturally occurring or semi-naturally occurring and include opioids and opiates. Demerol, Codeine, and Vicodin are narcotics.
You can test positive for narcotics, which codeine is. If you have been taking codeine, it's helpful to have a doctor's note and evidence of a prescription to show that your narcotics use is legit and not illegal drug abuse.
Tylenol with codeine and morphine are both narcotics. The actual chemical name for codeine is methylmorphine. Both are derived from the poppy plant.(opium) Codeine has most of the pharmacologic characteristics of morphine. Just not as strong
Heroin Smack, Horse, Mud, Brown sugar, Junk, Black tar, and Big H=Morphine Pectoral syrup==Opium Paregoric, Dover's Powder, Parepectolin==Codeine Empirin compound with codeine, Tylenol with codeine, Codeine in cough medicine=
Those are called narcotics. They include morphine, heroin, and codeine, among others.
it is combined with oxycodone in Percocet, Tylenol with Codeine (Number's 1-4) and with hydrocodone which is Vicodin or Norco.
"EXEMPT NARCOTICS" is a term is used to generally describe those Over-the-Counter (OTC) medications, that contain low-level dosages of narcotic and narcotic-type drugs. They are dispensed without prescription but the purchaser MUST sign a register in order to receive delivery of them (e.g.- Paregoric, or codeine-based cough syrup).
I live in Belgium, so I can say "Belgium' with certainty.