This is the Public Health Scotland Alcohol data dashboard. Alcohol is a leading cause of illness and early death within Scotland, and there are significant inequalities in this harm. However, like all harm caused by alcohol, this is preventable. This dashboard provides data and evidence around alcohol-related harms with the aim of aiding identification of where progress in reducing harm is being made, or where policy and/or service improvements may be required. This dashboard supports Scotland’s Fourth Public Health Priority in reducing the use of, and harm from, alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. More information on Scotland’s Public Health Priorities can be found here.
This dashboard provides data and evidence on alcohol-related health and social harms and inequalities in Scotland across multiple themes including:

• Alcohol-related hospital admissions
• Alcohol-related mortality
• Alcohol consumption
• Alcohol-related crime and justice
• Neighbourhoods, including homelessness
• Retail indicators, including sales and price

Each theme contains several indicators. Depending on the available data, indicators are shown at different scales (e.g., national level, NHS Board), and can be displayed by demographic factors (e.g., age, sex, deprivation level). The majority of these indicators were previously reported by Public Health Scotland in the MESAS Monitoring Report and the Alcohol-Related Hospital Statistics publication. Summary reports are still published on an annual basis, while presentation of data and trends is now located on this dashboard. The majority of indicators updated annually; a schedule of updates can be found in the Dashboard updates section.

2025 report: The additional 2025 report by Public Health Scotland (PHS) supplements the Alcohol Consumption and Harms Dashboard (ACHD) with a new dataset of alcohol retail sales and pricing estimates for years 2017 to 2024. In addition, there are updates to existing datasets within the ACHD on alcohol related crime and justice figures to include those relating to financial year 2023/24. There is also an update to the dashboard's alcohol consumption statistics which incorporates responses from the 2023 edition of the Scottish Health Survey (SHeS). In addition to these updates to the datasets within the Alcohol Consumption and Harms Dashboard this release is accompanied by a short report which provides contextual analyses of the alcohol retail sales and pricing estimates and the most recent wholly alcohol attributable hospital admissions and mortality statistics.