The adsorption and surface ionization of codeine molecules С18H21O3N ( m/z 299) on the surface of oxidized tungsten have been studied by a non-stationary method of voltage modulation under the same experimental conditions with a high-vacuum mass-spectrometric setup using a “black chamber” all walls of which are cooled with liquid nitrogen. For the codeine molecule dissociation with the [Formula: see text] bond breaking and formation of ionizable radicals, the rate constants K+ and K0, the activation energy Е+ and Е0 of thermodesorption, and the pre-exponential factors in the continuity equation for the radicals C9H7N+CH3 ( m/z 144) have been defined by surface ionization on the surface of oxidized tungsten WxOy. The results of determining the surface ionization coefficient and estimates of the ionization potentials of these radicals have been presented.