Help in explaining to Turkish-speaking patients how pharmaceuticals affectthe central nervous system. Fact or fiction?

Handouts in their mother tongue might be helpful in informing patients who do not speak German about medications that a re prescribed. A survey among 97 producers of CNS active drugs used in neurology and psychiatry showed th at only two patient information leaflets on preparations and nine on specif ic disorders are available in Germany. The producers who answered were most ly open-minded and mentioned causes like the legal situation and logistic p roblems.