The purpose of this study was to examine the ability of a standardized preemployment measure of substance abuse, the Employee Reliability Inventory, to distinguish between a sample of 142 known substance abusers and a comparative population of 295 job applicants. Significant discrimination indicates the measure accurately distinguishes between the two groups.
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