©2002 Marcel Dekker, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of Marcel Dekker, Inc. MARCEL DEKKER, INC. • 270 MADISON AVENUE • NEW YORK, NY 10016 MIGRATION, ACCULTURATION, DISPLACEMENT MEDICAL OUTREACH TO HOMELESS SUBSTANCE USERS IN NEW YORK CITY: PRELIMINARY RESULTS* Andrew Rosenblum, Ph.D., 1,y Larry Nuttbrock, Ph.D., 1 Hunter McQuistion, M.D., 2 Steve Magura, Ph.D., 1 and Herman Joseph, Ph.D. 3 1 National Development and Research Institutes, Inc., 71 West 23rd Street, 8th floor, NY, NY 10010 2 Project Renewal, Inc., 200 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014 3 New York State Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services, 55 W, 125th St., New York, NY 10027 ABSTRACT An innovative, experimental, medical out-reach initiative, using a fully-equipped mobile medical van with a staff of 2 part-time physicians, a physician assistant, a social worker, and a driver/medical aid serving the needs of 1048, mostly male, minority group, high-level, homeless New York City substance users with infectious diseases is described. The study sample (N ¼ 250) was divided into experimental S’s who received Intensive case management and a control group who could choose to refer themselves to the SW. 1269 DOI: 10.1081/JA-120004184 1082-6084 (Print); 1532-2491 (Online) Copyright & 2002 by Marcel Dekker, Inc. www.dekker.com *Write up of presentation for Towards the Year 2000 Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, July, 1999. y Corresponding author. E-mail: andrew.rosenblum@ndri.org SUBSTANCE USE & MISUSE Vol. 37, Nos. 8–10, pp. 1269–1273, 2002