Generation Rx: evaluation of medication misuse prevention education for older adults.

Objective: Increased medication misuse over the last two decades has prompted extensive discussion about the lack of evidence-based and evidence-informed prevention education programs targeting the topic. As older adults are high utilizers of medications, this is an important population to reach with such educational programming. This study was designed to assess the change in knowledge and behavioral intentions of older adult participants after attending an educational session focused on safe medication use utilizing the Generation Rx Older Adult Toolkit (GROAT) resources.

Pilot Evaluation of Generation Rx Ambassadors Virtual Training to Prepare Students for Medication Safety Outreach.

To describe the creation of a virtual training program (Generation Rx Ambassadors) and evaluate a pilot offering's impact on knowledge and perceived abilities in delivering medication safety outreach through the Generation Rx program. Generation Rx (GenRx) is a prevention education program used by student pharmacists to teach safe medication practices in the community. An asynchronous virtual course, called Generation Rx Ambassadors (Ambassadors), was developed to train facilitators on best practices for GenRx delivery.

Extracellular dopamine kinetic parameters consistent with amphetamine effects.

Published behavioral experiments document that amphetamine-induced increases in locomotor activity are preserved or enhanced in animals with major depletions of stored dopamine but intact dopamine synthesis. Conversely, amphetamine effects are substantially attenuated after inhibition of dopamine synthesis when most of the dopamine stores are preserved. Such data suggest that amphetamine mobilizes newly synthesized dopamine into extracellular signaling space.