Only 10% of codeine is converted to morphine in the liver and brain, what my question is of the 90% of the codeine left is all of this passed out as waste or does codeine actually have any affect by itself?
Ends up as norcodeine, codeine-6-glucuronide. On its own it's a week mu agonist that's not really that hot at all (it's pretty crap in people with a CYP2D6 deficiency)