I’m pretty certain tylenol 3 has codeine.
I had the prescription a few years ago and got the lecture from my doctor.
Codeine will stop your breathing.
It’s one reason why they took the ingredient out of some prescription cough medicines for children.
Some kids went to bed and never woke up.
My impression from reading the article is that the guy had a “back up”...if the codeine didn’t manage to kill him right away - he would eventually die from liver damage from the acetametaphine.
The reason cough medicine is so hard to get anymore is because it became a party drug. Kids would drink it by the bottle.
The local drug pusher has been replaced by your HMO and pharmacutical companies.
Unless the anthrax scientist was compromized by some other ailment like ALS or similar neuromuscular weakness, it's unlikely that anthing short of a whole bottle of oxycodone would have done too much more than made him throw up. If he managed to keep it down then I suppose. That's not as easy as it sounds though.
I still find it really odd that a bio-weapons researcher would use Tylenol to kill himself. That's like the head chef at Benni Hanna's cutting his throat with a spoon.