After some emergency dental work last week, I was given Rx Tylenol. It has a low dose of codeine, which is an opiate.
> None of my pharmacist friends will even fill an opioid anymore until the patient has filled and tried using a Rx Tylenol first.
Is an oxymoron? (Opioids are a superset of opiates, for what it's worth.)
There are scales to this stuff, like you wouldn’t lump heroin or morphine (both opiates) with Tylenol with codine (then again...maybe you might), but that’s the point you said you didn’t want to have a highly trained pharmacist fill your Tylenol, but based on all the questions you have, that is probably the most appropriate course of action. Then you can get a handle on the risks of these therapies, the difference and allow that to inform your decisions.