---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 7352"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "7352"
heading: "Excessive and habitual use of intoxicants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/7352"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart F — Labor-Management and Employee Relations"
  - "Chapter 73 — Suitability, Security, and Conduct"
  - "Subchapter V — Misconduct"
---

# §7352. Excessive and habitual use of intoxicants


An individual who habitually uses intoxicating beverages to excess may not be employed in the competitive [service](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 527.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Derivation | U.S. Code | Revised Statutes and<br>Statutes at Large |
|  | 5 U.S.C. 640. | Jan. 16, 1883, ch. 27, § 8, 22 Stat. 406. |

The word “employed” is substituted for “appointed to, or retained in” because it includes both.

Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.