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Title 5, Government Organization and EmployeesRelease 119-110

§7362 Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Title 5 › PART III — EMPLOYEES › Subpart F — Labor-Management and Employee Relations › CHAPTER 73 — SUITABILITY, SECURITY, AND CONDUCT › SUBCHAPTER VI — DRUG ABUSE, ALCOHOL ABUSE, AND ALCOHOLISM › § 7362

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Office of Personnel Management must create, with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and other agencies, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation programs for alcohol abuse and alcoholism among federal employees. Agencies are encouraged, when possible, to offer these services to employees’ family members or to employees who have alcoholic family members. The programs must use existing government facilities, services, and expertise whenever possible. Records for these programs are protected by Section 523 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290dd–3) and its rules. Each agency must send any written reports OPM asks for that relate to the report under section 7363. Agency: an Executive agency.

Full Legal Text

Title 5, §7362

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(a)The Office of Personnel Management shall be responsible for developing, in cooperation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and with other agencies, and in accordance with applicable provisions of this subpart, appropriate prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation programs and services for alcohol abuse and alcoholism among employees. Such agencies are encouraged to extend, to the extent feasible, such programs and services to the families of alcoholic employees and to employees who have family members who are alcoholics. Such programs and services shall make optimal use of existing governmental facilities, services, and skills.
(b)section 523 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290dd–3), relating to confidentiality of records, and any regulations prescribed thereunder, shall apply with respect to records maintained for the purpose of carrying out this section.
(c)Each agency shall, with respect to any programs or services provided by such agency, submit such written reports as the Office may require in connection with any report required under section 7363 of this title.
(d)For the purpose of this section, the term “agency” means an Executive agency.

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section 523 of the Public Health Service Act, referred to in subsec. (b) and formerly classified to section 290dd–3 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, was renumbered section 544 of that Act by Pub. L. 100–77, title VI, § 611(2),
July 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 516 and then omitted in the general revision of Part D of Subchapter III–A of Chapter 6A of Title 42 by Pub. L. 102–321, title I, § 131,
July 10, 1992, 106 Stat. 366. Provisions relating to the confidentiality of patient records are now classified to section 290dd–2 of Title 42.

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5 U.S.C. § 7362

Title 5, Government Organization and Employees

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110