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At the present time, doctors, pharmacists, and codeine-sensitive or allergic patients or sensitive to the amounts of histamine released by its metabolites must choose among rapidly dwindling supplies of the Hycodan-Codiclear-Hydromet type syrups, Tussionex — an extended-release suspension similar to the European products Codipertussin ( codeine hydrochloride ), Paracodin suspension ( dihydrocodeine hydroiodide ), Tusscodin ( nicocodeine hydrochloride ) and others — and a handful of weak dihydrocodeine syrups.

The low sales volume and Schedule II status of Dilaudid cough syrup predictably leads to under-utilisation of the drug.

There are several conflicting views concerning the US availability of cough preparations containing ethylmorphine ( also called dionine or codethyline )— Feco Syrup and its equivalents were first marketed circa 1895 and still in common use in the 1940s and 1950s, and the main ingredient is treated like codeine under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.