Custom dispensing of prescription pharmaceuticals

1. A method of customized dispensing by a pharmacy of a prescription pharmaceutical, the method comprising the steps of:

maintaining at a pharmacy containers, non-child resistant caps and child resistant elements:

each container having a threaded opening and having no locking projections extending from the container for contacting the child resistant element,

each non-child resistant cap having a sidewall with a threaded interior installable onto the threaded opening of the container, having a top with a top exterior surface, having an exterior sidewall surface and a non-child resistant cap outer diameter, the sidewall having a continuous circular lower edge that extends continuously around the circumference of the sidewall with the circular lower edge being parallel to the top of the non-child resistant cap, the distance from the top exterior surface to the lower edge being a non-child resistant cap height,

each child resistant element being unassembled with the non-child resistant cap and being configured so as to be able to be permanently assembled with the non-child resistant cap to permanently convert the non-child resistant cap to a push-down-and-turn child resistant cap, the child resistant element having a child resistant element top with an interior top surface, a child resistant element sidewall extending from the interior top surface to a lower child resistant element edge, the child resistant element sidewall having an interior surface and a child resistant element interior diameter, the distance from the interior top surface to the lower edge of the child resistant element being a child resistant element depth, wherein the child resistant element depth is greater than the non-child resistant cap height, and wherein the child resistant element interior diameter is greater than the non-child resistant cap outer diameter, the child resistant element being configured to fit over the non-child resistant cap in any radial orientation with respect to the non-child resistant cap and permanently retain the non-child resistant cap within the child resistant element;

driving structure on the child resistant element;

driven structure on the non-child resistant cap in a position to engage the driving structure when the non-child resistant cap is permanently retained within the child resistant element;

having interaction between the pharmacy and a customer of the pharmacy to request a decision from the customer,

receiving a decision from the customer as to whether the customer wants a child resistant cap or a non-child resistant cap;

when the customer wants the child resistant cap, performing the steps of

assembling at the pharmacy the child resistant element with the non-child resistant cap by positioning the child resistant element co-axially with respect to the non-child resistant cap, positioning the child resistant element in any radial orientation with respect to the non-child resistant cap, and pushing the interior sidewall of the child resistant element over the external sidewall of the non-child resistant cap until the non-child resistant cap is permanently retained within the child resistant element to produce a child resistant cap,

the child resistant cap being threadably installable on the threaded opening of the container and requiring a depressive axial force and a simultaneous turning force on the child resistant element to engage the driving structure and the driven structure and remove the child resistant cap from the threaded opening,

wherein absent the depressive axial force, the child resistant element rotates with respect to the non-child resistant cap in response to a turning force with the driving structure passing over the driven structure, whereby the assembled child resistant cap functions to resist removal from the container, and

dispensing the pharmaceutical to the customer in the container with the child resistant cap threaded onto the threaded opening of the container.