You don't have a location listed in your profile, so I don't know where you live, I am assuming the US. Well, they don't sell codeine containing pills OTC here. When I was looking into it before, I believe codeine is OTC in canada with some high APAP combo, so you would have to do an extraction like you're talking about. But anyways, you won't find them here, depending where you live you can drive to Canada, but shit for codeine...i mean it's not worth the gas to get there just to get some codeine, IMO.