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Substance Misuse Team
5 October 2012 - The new substance misuse team at ISD have published a proposal to shut down this website, moving the information onto the ScotPHO and ISD websites. We also propose to publish the bulletin information directly onto ScotPHO web pages, and produce substance misuse profiles and topic reports. Key stakeholders are signed up to this proposal and a working group is being set up. Comments are welcome to feed into the working group - ISD Scotland

NHS Health Scotland
29 August 2012 - Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland’s Alcohol Strategy: update report and briefing paper 2012 - NHS Health Scotland

Forthcoming Events
A list of forthcoming workshops, training courses, seminars and conferences.

Alcohol Brief Interventions
26 June 2012 - Alcohol Brief Interventions 2011 - 12 - ISD Scotland

Parliamentary Questions 2012
Alcohol-related parliamentary questions, in the Scottish Parliament, updated to 8th May 2012.

SALSUS
20 December 2011 - Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey - ISD Scotland

Statistics

Latest Statistics

Alcohol-related Hospital Statistics 2012 published 29th May 2012, presents the latest available information on alcohol-related discharges from general acute and psychiatric hospitals and provides an update on data presented in Alcohol Statistics Scotland 2011. Information on alcohol-related discharges from general acute hospitals is presented for period 2006/07 to 2010/11. Data on alcohol-related discharges from psychiatric hospitals is provided for 2005/06 to 2009/10.
Link opens in new window Full Report [PDF 273 KB]
Excel Tables [XLS 564 KB]

Alcohol Statistics Scotland 2011 [PDF 2.0 MB]
22nd February 2011 sees the release of Alcohol Statistics Scotland 2011.
This biennial publication presents the latest available information from a range of national data sources relating to alcohol. These include routine data sources and surveys. The four main sections are: The Alcohol Market, Alcohol Consumption, Alcohol and Health Harm and Alcohol and Social Harm. Excel tables are available to be downloaded: Link opens in new window Further information

Local Drugs and Alcohol Information 2010
This publication, Local Drugs and Alcohol Information 2010 was released by ISD Scotland on 30th March 2010, and is a compendium of local statistics on alcohol and drug use, brought together from previously published national sources. The statistics are primarily intended to provide easily accessible information to Alcohol and Drug Partnerships to support local planning and service provision.

Historical statistics

Historical alcohol-related statistics are available in the following categories;

Alcohol-related Hospital Statistics 2010 [PDF 127 KB]
This publication, Alcohol-related Hospital Statistics 2010, released on 23rd February 2010, presents the latest available information on alcohol-related discharges from general acute and psychiatric hospitals and provides an update on data presented in the Alcohol Statistics Scotland 2009 publication. Information on alcohol-related discharges from general acute hospitals is presented for period 2004/05 to 2008/09. Data on alcohol-related discharges from psychiatric hospitals is provided for period 2003/04 to 2007/08.

Alcohol Statistics Scotland 2009 [PDF 2.9 MB]
24th February 2009 sees the release of Alcohol Statistics Scotland 2009. This biennial publication presents the latest available information from a range of national data sources relating to alcohol. The four main sections are The Alcohol Market, Alcohol Consumption, Alcohol and Health Harm and Alcohol and Social Harm. Further Information.

Local Drugs and Alcohol Information 2008
This compendium of local statistics released on 26th February 2008 on alcohol and drug use brings together local data from available national sources. The statistics are primarily intended to provide easily accessible information to Alcohol and Drug Action Teams to support local planning and service provision.

Alcohol-related hospital statistics [PDF 110 KB]
18th December 2007 sees the release of figures on alcohol-related hospital discharges for 2006/07 and alcohol-related psychiatric hospital discharges for 2005/06.

Alcohol Statistics Scotland 2007 [PDF 623 KB]
30th January 2007 sees the release of Alcohol Statistics Scotland 2007. This is the second publication of Alcohol Statistics Scotland. The publication brings together information on alcohol in Scotland from a wide range of sources. Topics covered are the alcohol market, alcohol consumption, social and health harm.

Local Alcohol Profiles 2006
Local Alcohol Profiles have been produced for each Alcohol Action Team (AAT) area in Scotland. The aim of these profiles is to compile available national data on alcohol problems for each AAT area.

Alcohol Statistics Scotland 2005 [PDF 696 KB]
This is the first publication of Alcohol Statistics Scotland. The publication brings together information on alcohol in Scotland from a wide range of sources. Topics covered are the alcohol market, alcohol consumption, social and health harm.

ISD compendium of statistics, June 2004
This was produced for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow conference ' Scotland's Hangover - Wake up to the problem' in June 2004.

page opens in a new window Statistics on Alcohol in Scotland, 2002 [PDF 198 KB]
A digest of statistics on alcohol in Scotland was also published alongside the Plan for Action on alcohol problems in January 2002.

International Statistics
Page with links to international comparisons of alcohol statistics.

Interim Analytical Report
The UK government published an Interim Analytical Report as part of the development of an alcohol strategy. It includes UK and GB statistics on alcohol problems.

page opens in a new window Statistics on Alcohol, England 2009
Statistics on Alcohol, England 2008
Statistics on Alcohol, England 2007
Statistics on Alcohol, England 2006
Statistics on Alcohol, England 2004
Statistics on Alcohol, England 2003
The Department of Health publishes statistics on alcohol for England. A number of tables report British and UK data.