City crime branch arrested two persons with 360 bottles of codeine phosphate in the Khajrana area, police said on Thursday. One of the accused had taken the bottles illegally from someone in Dewas.
Cough syrups with codeine phosphate have an intoxicating effect on nerves and they are widely abused due to easy availability at pharmacies. The government has banned codeine-based syrups.
The search, carried out in the presence of the Tehsildar Panthachowk (a Gazetted Officer), resulted in the recovery of 290 bottles of Codeine Phosphate. According to a police spokesperson, a case has ...
Codeine phosphate 10mg, promethazine HCl 6.25mg; per 5mL; syrup; contains alcohol 7%. Risk of life-threatening respiratory depression and death related to ultra-rapid metabolizers of codeine (esp.