Table 1

Interview guide

TopicMain questionProbe
Introduction
Warm-up questions
(demographic characteristics and substance use)
  • Number of participants.

  • Age.

  • Gender.

  • Marital status.

  • Income source.

  • Residence.

  • History of substance use.

  • History of treatment.

  • History of imprisonment.

  • Number of times using drugs at the Farahzad drug scene.

  • History of the Farahzad drug scene emergence.

  • Reason for choosing the Farahzad drug scene.

Main question
  • What are the effects of the Farahzad drug scene (in which people use and deal drugs) on your neighbourhood?

  • What factors predispose and reinforce these effects?

  • What types of interventions are needed to reduce these effects on this scene?

  • What barriers do you observe regarding having access to required interventions?

  • What barriers do you find concerning implementing the required interventions?

Personal experience, other experiences of PWUDs.
Ending
  • Is there anything you want to add?

  • That’s the end of the interview. Thank you very much for your time.

  • As I need to be sure that I appropriately got your message and to share the findings of the interview with you, when can we interview again?

  • PWUDs, people who use drugs.