How to use your Be MedWise Arkansas Program

1. How to use your Be MedWise Arkansas Program Tips and tricks

2. Introduction • In this presentation • Overview of BeMedWise Arkansas • What you have at your fingertips • How to use what you have • Reporting • Future of BeMedWise Arkansas

3. Overview BeMedWise Arkansas

4. What is it? • Health Literacy Initiative • To promote wise use of medications and dietary supplements • Promote pharmacists • Targeting all people • Wide range of topics

5. Why? • Major public health problem • Over 100,000 drug products on the market • Poisonings, overdosing, abuse and interactions are increasing • More pouring into OTC each year • Healthcare costs over $177 billion from medication misuse • Supplements are a deregulated industry

6. What you have at your fingertips

7. A Be MedWise Lesson GuideProvides an overview of the Be MedWise Initiative What’s in it How to use it • An overview and our partners • Our lessons for 2010 • Partners • Resources • Summarize your program to others • Great reminder what we are offering right now • At-a-glance who you can partner with in your county • At-a-glance of great places to learn more on current topics; newsletter ideas; drug interaction sites

8. Our statewide partners Who are they? What this means for us • NCPIE • UAMS College of Pharmacy • Arkansas Poison Control Center • Solid place to read up on topics and in the news; self-learn; tell others about the site; order material for your county • Help us with accuracy in our material • We promote that people call them; They provide us with products; we develop items together; they support our program

9. Check out our partnership website http://bemedwise.org/ http://www.talkaboutrx.org/ (order here)

10. Promotional items available Displays (reserve from LRSO) • Be MedWise Program promotional (trifold foam core) • Supplements (trifold foam core) • Prescription drug abuse for adults* (trifold foam core) • Prescription drug abuse for teens* (trifold foam core) • Is it Candy or Medicine (small with a stand) • Poison Display (trifold foam core) * Coming soon

11. Promotional Items available • Promotional Flier (On Spot) • Sample Press release (on Spot) • Be MedWise logo (on Spot in Promotional tools)

12. Promotional Items available Professional Handouts (reserve from LRSO) • Poison Hotline Magnets (reserve from LRSO) • Poisoning for older adults brochures (until out of product) • Prescription drug abuse (can print yourself) • Overview • Guide for parents • Numerous other handouts

13. Lessons available for 2010 • Medicines in the home • How to talk to your doctor • Drug Interactions: When 2 rights make a wrong • Supplements and herbs: Just because they’re natural doesn’t mean they’re safe • Storing and disposing medicines wisely • Giving medicines to children wisely • Prescription Drug Abuse: When families become drug dealers

14. Every lesson has: • Lesson Guide • Activity Sheet • PowerPoint • Talking tips within PowerPoint • Evaluation (please staple or copy front-back) • Toolkits for activities (Some can be checked out from LRSO) • Items are also easily purchased locally • Some can be found in the home

16. Medicines in the home • This is the main lesson from Be MedWise • Promote reading entire label of OTC meds • Ask pharmacists for help • All audiences

17. Talking to your doctor

18. How to talk to your doctor • Describes the various specialties in medicine • Teaches Patient and doctor rights and responsibilities • Encourages patient/client to be prepared for doctors’ visits • Encourages patient/client to ask questions • Activities include role play Feeling empowered, being preparedand knowing you are 50% of your healthcare team are some of the things you will learn in this lesson.

20. Drug Interactions: When 2 Rights Make a Wrong • Describes what is a drug interaction • Effects of drug interactions on the body • Describes the various types of drug interactions • Utilizes the use of a drug interaction checker • Promotes asking the pharmacist questions before leaving counter with new medicines

22. Dietary supplements and herbs: Just because they’re natural doesn’t mean they’re safe! • Defines supplements and herbs • Describes various types of supplements • Described regulatory laws—or lack thereof • Raises awareness to problems with supplements • Teaches how to buy supplements Just a note: The point of this lesson is not to raise fear, but to use supplements wisely. There are many supplements that are beneficial, and sometimes even necessary. However, too much use can be equivalent to overmedication and can product side effects. A tincture

23. Storing and Disposing of Medicines Wisely

24. Storing and disposing medicines wisely • Raises awareness about need for extra precaution for storing medicines properly • Raises awareness of environmental hazards from improper medication disposal • Encourages use of take-back programs • Teaches how to dispose of medicines wisely It’s just not cool to dump medicine down the sink. Promote a take back program in your county…or dispose wisely

26. Giving medicine to children wisely • Similar to “Medicines in the home” but focuses on issues directly pertinent to children • Good for child care providers, parents, grandparents…anyone who cares for children

27. Teen Rx & OTC Drug Abuse When families become drug dealers

28. Prescription drug abuse: When families become drug dealers • For adults in the role of being a teen influencer • Raises awareness to the problem of drug abuse of both prescription and OTC • What to look for • Why teens abuse drugs • How they abuse these drugs • How to talk to teens Drug dealers?

29. New • MUST for Seniors • Includes an entire program focused for seniors (encompasses all of Be MedWise) (includes press releases etc) • 4 vignettes (movies) • Talking to doctor about all Rx drugs • Issues with medication management • Multicultural perspective/herbs and supplements • Drug interaction experience • We have videos (VHS and DVD) • The Other Drug Problem (Prescription drug abuse) • Leading a Better Life • Taking the Mystery out of Managing Your Medicine

30. Back home…Help! Now what? How to deliver …painlessly

31. Decide how to carry out your program • Health fairs only? • Check out our displays, get magnets, printouts • Go to NCPIE to purchase slick copy brochures • Or print our handouts • Workshop • Pros: Get it all done in one day • Cons: a lot of work • Several-week series? • Can do follow-up evaluation to see behavior change • Grab and go

32. Decide on Audience • Extension Homemakers • Teachers • Parents (is there a school event?) • Worksites (lunchtime health programs) • After church • Caregivers • Department of Health nurses • Day care/after school care • Health Fair keynote? • Work with healthcare facility to recruit patients

33. Decide on County Partners to help deliver lesson • Pharmacists • ANY lesson • Physicians, nurses, dentists • Police officers • Prescription drug abuse • Disposal of pain meds • Arkansas Poison Control Center • Call to see if they can be in your county to talk about drug overdose and how Poison Control can respond Lessons are more interesting with experts that complement your lesson with their expertise.

34. Ask for support from community • Printing, food, buying products to give out from NCPIE website • Idea: NCPIE has many slick brochures, posters, handouts, stickers, etc • Idea: ask them to help promote your program • Think of unlikely sources • Idea: doing radio show? Have a guest speak with you • Idea:Make schools your friends • Include everyone’s logo (including ours as largest) • Send thank you notes, include acknowledgment in newsletters

35. Share hot topics with community • Needing ideas for newsletters/radio shows? • Check out FDA website • Look for links in Spot/email from me • Share drug recalls with the community • Share others’ stories (ask permission) with a reminder about using medicine wisely • Use success stories from your program

36. You can do it! • Read up on topic/prepare • Lessons are created to be simple…with basic message: • Raise awareness to read all labels • Use medicine and supplement wisely • Ask a pharmacist when in doubt • Start a collection of stories (share them on Spot/Impact notes) • How others dealt with similar issues “You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them.”Zig Ziglar

37. Reporting Does this look like you?

38. Please remember ! • Copy evaluations front and back • Or staple together • Send in sign in sheet with contact names and addresses/phone numbers to state office • Send back evaluations Wait for it…wait…not ready for the guy on the left yet….

39. I know it’s rough..but please do not make my face your target practice! AIMSNow set up to enter immediately • Your evaluations are linked with AIMS questions • When asking for “# of people who”… • Only count solid “yes” • Don’t forget the stories for impacts! • Horror stories • Success stories • Need for the program

40. Final message • See you on SPOT! • If you don’t see something, call me! • “Your health –and your family’s health—are too important to play guessing games.”