A fictional friend of mine woke up this morning, and upon exhausting all sources for green and being too old and straight looking to score on the street decided to try a codeine extraction from OTC acetaminophen/caffiene/codeine pills. He started with 100 250/30/8 pills also containing starch,hydroxymethylcellulose,magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, and stearic acid. He followed directions for the extraction and dissolved the pills in hot water cooled the mixture to 10C and began filtering. Unfortunately our protagonist is impatient and did not cool the mixture fully, crystals of acetaminophen formed in the filter and clogged it, while squeezing the liquid through the filter he broke it and had to start over. Upon successful completion of the first filtering he reduced the liquid by 1/2 cooled and filtered again, this would (he hoped) rid it of the caffiene, his method suggested a second reduction/filtration but he decided that a little caffiene in the finished product would hurt him not at all and he wanted to GET A BUZZ ON NOW! so he decided to evaporate the results on a plate in the microwave on defrost. As the liquid reduced interesting things started happening, something wierd cracked back on the top of the mixture, he assumed this was methylcellulose or some such crud and skimmed it off(saving it just in case). He let the solution reduce some more and took it out, lo and behold crystals started to form before his very eyes and he realized he had not filtered out all the acetaminophen, much less the caffiene. Irritable, and annoyingly straight he fully dried some of the mix with a blow dryer and snorted it back. After dancing around the room in pain and hanging out in the john for a while he ralized his heart was hammering like a drum and he had a moderate opiate buzz. The moral of this story is (1): the hero will never attempt any of the synths on this or any other site because although he makes a great algerian cous-cous his patience level is insufficient for any lab work (2): the extraction works and could yield anything from fairly pure codeine to the reduced pill shit mix he ended up with, which will make a great hangover cure but has limited recreational possibilities.
Any advice on how to refine this procedure would be appreciated, my fictional friend sees no reason why he should allow the fact that he can acquire OTC codeine to go unexploited.
Cheers

And whats the name of these OTC pills containing codeine?

They are just no name acetaminophen caffiene and codeine, you can buy them at any pharmacy here, I know this is not the case everywhere, in some places you need a scrip and in others you need to sign a register.

SomeEverydayNobody: He means Tylenol w/codeine #1 or generic equivalent. You live in the REAL land of the free, you should know about OTC codeine