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What makes your liver change codine into morphine?
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Chemistry: Liver is a chemical factory that changes chemicals to forms that we can then remove from the body. A pathway called CYP 2D6 will alter codeine to morphine. 9 % of Americans are missing this route! and cannot change.
Answered 9/29/2016
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