This article shows how an empirical profile matching procedure applied to the MMPI of a client can be used to quantify the degree to which the client's personality profile is representative of a drug abusing group. Supplementary techniques show how reliable this judgment is and, when the individual's profile does not match a drug abuser prototype, isolates the reasons for the discrepancies. The technique can be regularly applied to MMPI profiles to screen for an “abuser-prone” personality style as well as more than forty other personality diagnostic classifications. A special automated scoring service is available for this identification.
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