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“Eight patients were given an oral dose of 125 mg codeine and 9 patients (including the poor metaboliser) were given 200 mg quinidine 2 h before the same dose of codeine.”
European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology • 2004 | View Paper
“Lack of morphine formation from codeine as a result of CYP2D6 inhibition by quinidine results in an almost complete loss of the analgesic effects of codeine.”
“ Quinidine and lignocaine, although they are substrates of CYP3A, showed preferential inhibition over the O-demethylation of codeine , suggesting a low affinity to the CYP3A.”