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69 Animal Pharmacology: What Do Animal Science Students Know?


 Careers in animal science are typically as much about animals as they are about people, which means that animal science undergraduate students should be not only knowledgeable about animals, but also people and their behavior, including substance use disorders, such as opioid abuse. The purpose of the study was to investigate the pharmacological knowledge of undergraduates who are majoring in Animal Science in colleges of Agriculture, including programs oriented to livestock, companion animals, wildlife ecology and those with a pre-veterinary medicine focus. Students at three different Southern Land Grant Universities completed an online survey, adapted from a previous study of veterinarians, in two waves. The response rates were comparable between the first wave of data collection in spring 2020 from University of Arkansas and Oklahoma State University, 32%, and 39%, respectively. The response rate from the second wave of data collection in fall 2020 at Louisiana State University, 51%, however, was greater. Not surprisingly, most of the respondents were white females. Based on a 10-point grading scale, students’ factual knowledge about opioids and the opioid crisis would have yielded an A grade at one of the universities and a C grade at the other two universities. The question all students scored the lowest on was “chemically, there’s a huge difference between prescription opioids people get from doctors or healthcare professionals and heroin.” Students seemed most knowledgeable about the prescribing or administration of Tramadol from a list of 10 medications. They agreed that DVMs have changed their prescribing practices because of human opioids misuse. Almost all of the students also agreed/strongly agreed that use in animals and the use or misuse of opioids in humans should be taught in veterinary medicine. In conclusion, the findings of the current study suggest that undergraduate curricula in animal science should not only include humans’ misuse of opioids, but also, other drugs meant for animals, such as ketamine or ivermectin.