Other than seaweed, none of my apps would take a pill. I'm also just not familiar enough with preps to just go popping random pills, lest they do contain a spell, which I assume most pills do.

So, hugs not drugs, I guess.

Seaweed is okay for apps and okay for Villagers, thankfully.

When it comes to using healers as an app, there are several different ways to play it. I generally only use a healer as an app when I mistakenly wield a cursed weapon. I also then make it a point to kill a mage ASAP to compensate for my stupidity. I don't use them for healing, poison, blindness, etc.

I don't think that using healers for healing hard-codes you to require an IMM-induct, but it may. Regardless of that, if you do use healers as an app (or an app-app) your enemies will post logs of it on the forums and you'll get the character off to a bad start regardless of where you end up.

Food for thought.