As an example a recent survey of physicians involved in the health-care of the elderly reported that 35% of the doctors considered hypertension a result of the aging process and that 25% of them felt that treating an 85-year-old for symptoms of hypertension would cause more harm than the benefits it would produce.
Dihydrocodeine is used as an alternative or adjunct to codeine for the aforementioned indications. It is available as the following salts, in approximate descending order of frequency of use: bitartrate, phosphate, hydrochloride, tartrate, hydroiodide, methyliodide, hydrobromide, sulfate, and thiocyanate.or use against pain, dihydrocodeine is usually formulated as tablets or capsules containing a quarter grain (15 or 16 mg) or a half grain (30 or 32 mg) with or without other active ingredients such as aspirin, paracetamol (acetaminophen), ibuprofen, or others.
Codeine is used for suppressing coughs and the treatment of mild to moderate pain, and the abuse of codeine is often sung about in hip hop songs. Thebaine is the last of all the types of opiates, and is used to make hydrocodone, Vicodin, and oxycodone and oxycontin, which are both commonly abused drugs. Thebaine is stronger than codeine and, like heroin, clients can easily find it on the streets which helps to make it one of the more commonly abused drugs.