---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 7904"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "7904"
heading: "Employee assistance programs relating to drug abuse and alcohol abuse"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/7904"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart F — Labor-Management and Employee Relations"
  - "Chapter 79 — Services to Employees"
---

# §7904. Employee assistance programs relating to drug abuse and alcohol abuse

- (a) The head of each [Executive agency](/usc/5/3330d.md?p=a-2-A) shall, in a manner consistent with guidelines prescribed under [subsection (b)](#b) of this section and applicable provisions of law, establish appropriate prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation programs and [services](/usc/5/8331.md?p=12) for drug abuse and alcohol abuse for [employees](/usc/5/5361.md?p=1) in or under such [agency](/usc/5/500.md?p=a-1).
- (b) The Office of Personnel Management shall, after such consultations as the Office considers appropriate, prescribe guidelines for programs and [services](/usc/5/8331.md?p=12) under this section.
- (c) The Secretary of Health and Human [Services](/usc/5/8331.md?p=12), on request of the head of an [Executive agency](/usc/5/3330d.md?p=a-2-A), shall review any program or [service](/usc/5/8331.md?p=12) provided under this section and shall submit comments and recommendations to the head of the [agency](/usc/5/500.md?p=a-1) concerned.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–570, title VI, § 6004(a), Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3207–159.)