---
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"
date: "2026-07-12"
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/5/6501.md?p=2) 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/5/8401.md?p=26) for drug abuse and alcohol abuse for [employees](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-2) in or under such [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1).
- (b) The [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) of Personnel Management shall, after such consultations as the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) considers appropriate, prescribe guidelines for programs and [services](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26) under this section.
- (c) The [Secretary](/usc/5/9901.md?p=2) of Health and Human [Services](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26), on request of the head of an [Executive agency](/usc/5/6501.md?p=2), shall review any program or [service](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26) provided under this section and shall submit comments and recommendations to the head of the [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) concerned.

## Source credit

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