Part I.

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) is subdivision of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is itself, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A Task Force on College Drinking was created by the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and they maintain a Web site, "College Drinking: Changing the Culture." A fact sheet at the site reports the current data on the consequences of high-risk college drinking. Visit the following Web site to get a "snapshot" of the annual costs to colleges, to communities, and to the students themselves from the excessive and underage student drinking: http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/facts/snapshot.aspx.

Part II.

The National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism lists the alcohol policies of colleges throughout the United States. Visit the following Web site to learn about the policies at your own college: http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/policies/.

Part III.

An external cost associated with prostitution is the trafficking of women and children to supply sex workers for this very profitable industry. The U.S. Department of State has issued its seventh annual report, the Trafficking in Persons Report, June 2007, which was mandated by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Read the introduction to the report at the following Web site: http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2007/. What are the current annual estimates of the number of persons, who are trafficked across international borders? What percent are women and children?

Examine the tragic stories of individual women and children. How are these innocent victims caught in this web of exploitation? What are the external costs of prostitution related to human trafficking?