Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy Management, 06100 Sihhiye,Ankara-Turkey

Summary:
In-depth interview is one of the qualitative research methods. Qualitative research methods provide more insight into the subject to be researched and the thoughts of people who are to be interviewed.
In this research, 60 community pharmacists were interviewed in-depth with the aim of finding out their approach to the problem of substance abuse and their prevention role in this disease.In this article the most important findings obtained from the research are highlighted.
Of the pharmacists almost all (97.6%), evaluated the situation of substance abuse in this country as ’serious’.Almost four-fifths of the pharmacists (83.3%)thought ’teenagers’ and one-seventh (13.3%) thought ‘the rich ones’ were under the risk of substance abuse.
Pharmacists indicated that they could take the following roles in preventing substance abuse: Warning the patient concerning the medicines which have dependency risk (46.7%), not selling medicines which have dependensy risk without prescription (43.3%), giving importance the patient-pharmacists communication (18.3%), being voluntary in giving information on substance abuse (13.3%), giving education and participating in the self-learning activities on substance abuse(13.3%), giving importance in the second place to the commercial side of the profession (10%)