Drug Czar Responsibility and Accountability Act of 1998

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Drug Czar Responsibility and Accountability Act of 1998 - Amends Federal law to expand the responsibilities of the Director of National Drug Control Policy to include: (1) establishing Federal policies, objectives, goals, priorities, and performance measures for the National Drug Control Program, and for each Program agency, which shall include targets for reducing the levels of overall unlawful drug use, adolescent unlawful drug use, and drug-related emergency room incidents to January 19, 1993 levels; (2) requiring the submission of specified reports from Program agencies; (3) making recommendations to Program agency heads on the implementation of Federal counter-drug programs; (4) taking actions to oppose any attempt to legalize the use of a substance in any form that is listed in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act and that has not been approved for medical use by the Food and Drug Administration; and (5) ensuring that drug prevention and drug treatment research and information is effectively disseminated by Program agencies to State and local governments and nongovernmental entities involved in demand reduction. States that certain surveys of drug use among young peopl…