This indicator explores whether alcohol-related harm and drinking behaviour has changed over time.

Excessive alcohol consumption can have harmful health consequences in the short term but also in the long term, through conditions such as liver disease, stroke and some cancers. Alcohol-related hospital activity and alcohol-related deaths are potentially avoidable burdens to the health service. Alcohol-related harm includes conditions that are a direct consequence of alcohol consumption, such as alcohol poisoning, as well as conditions that are partly related to alcohol, such as liver cancer. Alcohol-specific harm only includes health conditions which are a direct consequence of alcohol misuse, such as alcoholic liver disease and accidental poisoning by exposure to alcohol...