This statistical report presents a range of information on alcohol use and misuse by adults and children drawn together from a variety of sources for England unless otherwise stated. More information can be found in the source publications which contain a wider range of data and analyses. Newly published data includes: Alcohol-related hospital admissions published by PHE in their Local Alcohol Profiles for England (LAPE) which uses data from NHS Digital’s Hospital Episode Statistics (HES). New analyses of data on affordability of alcohol using already published ONS data. The latest information from already published sources includes: Alcohol-specific deaths published by ONS. Information on the volume and cost of alcohol related prescriptions from NHS Digital. Adult drinking behaviours from the Health Survey for England (HSE). Child drinking behaviours from the Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use Survey (SDD). Road casualties involving illegal alcohol levels published by Department for Transport. Expenditure on alcohol from the Family Food report from the Living Costs and Food Survey (LCFS).

This report contains results from the latest survey of secondary school pupils in England in years 7 to 11 (mostly aged 11 to 15), focusing on smoking, drinking and drug use. It covers a range of topics including prevalence, habits, attitudes, and wellbeing. In 2023 the survey was administered online for the first time, instead of paper-based surveys as in previous years. This move online also meant that completion of the survey could be managed through teacher-led sessions, rather than being conducted by external interviewers. The 2023 survey also introduced additional questions relating to pupils wellbeing. These included how often the pupil felt lonely, felt left out and that they had no-one to talk to. Results of analysis covering these questions have been presented within parts of the report and associated data tables. The report includes this summary report showing key findings, excel tables with more detailed outcomes, technical appendices and a data quality statement. An anonymised record level file of the underlying data on which users can carry out their own analysis will be made available via the UK Data Service in early 2025 (see link below).

The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) has published an update to Local Alcohol Profiles for England (LAPE).

The LAPE interactive tool presents a range of alcohol-related indicators and allows users to view and analyse data in a user-friendly format.

The aim of the profile is to provide information for local government, health organisations, commissioners and other agencies to monitor the impact of alcohol on local communities, and to monitor the services and initiatives that have been put in place to prevent and reduce the harmful impact of alcohol.

This release includes new data for the following indicators:

• alcohol-specific mortality
• alcohol-related mortality
• mortality from chronic liver disease
• alcohol-specific admissions
• alcohol-related admissions (broad)
• alcohol-related admissions (narrow)
• alcohol-related admissions (narrow): under 40
• alcohol-related admissions (narrow): 40 to 64
• alcohol-related admissions (narrow): 65 plus
• alcohol-related admissions (narrow) for unintentional injuries
• alcohol-related admissions (narrow) for mental and behavioural disorders
• alcohol-related admissions (narrow) for intentional self-poisoning due to exposure to alcohol
• alcohol-related admissions (broad) for cardiovascular disease
• alcohol-related admissions (broad) for mental and behavioural disorders
• alcohol-related admissions (broad) for alcoholic liver disease

View previous LAPE updates.

In April 2020, a survey carried out in the United Kingdom found that since the lockdown restrictions were imposed due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 20 percent of respondents aged between 18 and 24 years were consuming a little more alcohol than usual, while a further four percent were drinking alcohol a lot more than usual. Furthermore, just under a fifth of respondents in the age groups between 25 and 54 years of age were a drinking a bit more alcohol than normal. The latest number of cases in the UK can be found here. For further information about the coronavirus pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

Annual data on number of alcohol-specific deaths by sex, age group and individual cause of death, UK constituent countries.

Deaths from alcohol-related conditions, all ages, directly age-standardised rate per 100,000 population (standardised to the European standard population).

Rationale Alcohol consumption is a contributing factor to hospital admissions and deaths from a diverse range of conditions. Alcohol misuse is estimated to cost the NHS about £3.5 billion per year and society as a whole £21 billion annually.

The Government has said that everyone has a role to play in reducing the harmful use of alcohol - this indicator is one of the key contributions by the Government (and the Department of Health and Social Care) to promote measurable, evidence-based prevention activities at a local level, and supports the national ambitions to reduce harm set out in the Government's Alcohol Strategy. This ambition is part of the monitoring arrangements for the Responsibility Deal Alcohol Network. Alcohol-related deaths can be reduced through local interventions to reduce alcohol misuse and harm.

The proportion of disease attributable to alcohol (alcohol attributable fraction) is calculated using a relative risk (a fraction between 0 and 1) specific to each disease, age group, and sex combined with the prevalence of alcohol consumption in the population. All mortality records are extracted that contain an attributable disease and the age and sex-specific fraction applied. The results are summed into quinary age bands for the numerator and a directly standardised rate calculated using the European Standard Population. This revised indicator uses updated alcohol attributable fractions, based on new relative risks from ‘Alcohol-attributable fractions for England: an update’ (1) published by PHE in 2020. A detailed comparison between the 2013 and 2020 alcohol attributable fractions is available in Appendix 3 of the PHE report (2). A consultation was also undertaken with stakeholders where the impact of the new methodology on the LAPE indicators was quantified and explored (3).

The calculation that underlies all alcohol-related indicators has been updated to take account of the latest academic evidence and more recent alcohol-consumption figures. The result has been that the newly published mortality and admission rates are lower than those previously published. This is due to a change in methodology, mainly because alcohol consumption across the population has reduced since 2010. Therefore, the number of deaths and hospital admissions that we attribute to alcohol has reduced because in general people are drinking less today than they were when the original calculation was made.

Figures published previously did not misrepresent the burden of alcohol based on the previous evidence – the methodology used in this update is as close as sources and data allow to the original method. Though the number of deaths and admissions attributed to alcohol each year has reduced, the direction of trend and the key inequalities due to alcohol harm remain the same. Alcohol remains a significant burden on the health of the population and the harm alcohol causes to individuals remains unchanged.

References:

PHE (2020) Alcohol-attributable fractions for England: an update PHE (2020) Alcohol-attributable fractions for England: an update: Appendix 3 PHE (2021) Proposed changes for calculating alcohol-related mortality

Definition of numerator Deaths from alcohol-related conditions based on underlying cause of death, registered in the calendar year for all ages. Each alcohol-related death is assigned an alcohol attributable fraction based on underlying cause of death (and all cause of deaths fields for the conditions: ethanol poisoning, methanol poisoning, toxic effect of alcohol). Alcohol-attributable fractions were not available for children.

Mortality data includes all deaths registered in the calendar year where the local authority of usual residence of the deceased is one of the English geographies and an alcohol attributable diagnosis is given as the underlying cause of death. Counts of deaths for years up to and including 2019 have been adjusted where needed to take account of the MUSE ICD-10 coding change introduced in 2020. Detailed guidance on the MUSE implementation is available at: MUSE implementation guidance.

Counts of deaths for years up to and including 2013 have been double adjusted by applying comparability ratios from both the IRIS coding change and the MUSE coding change where needed to take account of both the MUSE ICD-10 coding change and the IRIS ICD-10 coding change introduced in 2014. The detailed guidance on the IRIS implementation is available at: IRIS implementation guidance.

Counts of deaths for years up to and including 2010 have been triple adjusted by applying comparability ratios from the 2011 coding change, the IRIS coding change, and the MUSE coding change where needed to take account of the MUSE ICD-10 coding change, the IRIS ICD-10 coding change, and the ICD-10 coding change introduced in 2011. The detailed guidance on the 2011 implementation is available at: 2011 implementation guidance.

Definition of denominator ONS mid-year population estimates aggregated into quinary age bands.

Caveats There is the potential for the underlying cause of death to be incorrectly attributed on the death certificate and the cause of death misclassified. Alcohol-attributable fractions were not available for children. Conditions where low levels of alcohol consumption are protective (have a negative alcohol-attributable fraction) are not included in the calculation of the indicator.

The confidence intervals do not take into account the uncertainty involved in the calculation of the AAFs – that is, the proportion of deaths that are caused by alcohol and the alcohol consumption prevalence that are included in the AAF formula are only an estimate and so include uncertainty. The confidence intervals published here are based only on the observed number of deaths and do not account for this uncertainty in the calculation of attributable fraction - as such the intervals may be too narrow.

Due to the coronavirus outbreak in early 2020 some consumers in European countries have increased their alcohol consumption. According to a survey in late March and early April of 2020 about 12 percent of respondents from the United Kingdom stated that they currently drink more alcohol than before the outbreak. The share of respondents that now drink more was largest in the UK. About two percent behind the UK was the share of respondents from France. For more statistics and data on COVID-19 visit our facts and figures page on the pandemic.

The prevalence of alcohol consumption above certain specified levels (“sensible” limits) based on people’s estimates of amounts drank on a “usual” occasion recorded in terms of five different types of drink and then converted into units of alcohol: The prevalence of alcohol consumption based on results from the Health Survey for England including: Proportion of men drinking more than 4 units and women drinking more than 3 units of alcohol in heaviest drinking day last week; Proportion of men drinking more than 8 units and women drinking more than 6 units of alcohol in heaviest drinking day last week. To help reduce the prevalence of excessive alcohol consumption and the health risks associated with single episodes of intoxication.The damage caused by alcohol misuse to individuals and society has become an increasing focus of public concern in recent years. Drinking alcohol has been linked to increased risks of hypertension, stroke, coronary heart disease, liver cirrhosis and some cancers. Legacy unique identifier: P00859

This public health factsheet describes facts, assets, and strategies related to alcohol health impacts in Camden.

Please see the full protocol on Open Science Framework: https://osf.io/h8tgw The human participant research protocol was approved by University College London’s (23875/004) and University of Sheffield’s ethics committees (786). File(s) are available to researchers on request in line with ethics approval.

Analysis of ‘Alcohol Related Deaths in the UK 1994 To 2016’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/yamqwe/alcohol-related-deaths-in-the-uk-1994-to-2016e on 13 February 2022.

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This dataset includes information on age-standardized and age-specific alcohol-related death rates in the UK, its constituent countries and regions of England, deaths registered from 1994 to 2016.

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Annual data on age-standardised and age-specific alcohol-related death rates in the UK, its constituent countries and regions of England.

A substantial amount of research has been conducted into the mental health of the UK military in recent years. This article summarises the results of the various studies and offers possible explanations for differences in findings between the UK and other allied nations. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) rates are perhaps surprisingly low amongst British forces, with prevalence rates of around 4% in personnel who have deployed, rising to 6% in combat troops, despite the high tempo of operations in recent years. The rates in personnel currently on operations are consistently lower than these. Explanations for the lower PTSD prevalence in British troops include variations in combat exposures, demographic differences, higher leader to enlisted soldier ratios, shorter operational tour lengths and differences in access to long-term health care between countries. Delayed-onset PTSD was recently found to be more common than previously supposed, accounting for nearly half of all PTSD cases; however, many of these had sub-syndromal PTSD predating the onset of the full disorder. Rates of common mental health disorders in UK troops are similar or higher to those of the general population, and overall operational deployments are not associated with an increase in mental health problems in UK regular forces. However, there does appear to be a correlation between both deployment and increased alcohol misuse and post-deployment violence in combat troops. Unlike for regular forces, there is an overall association between deployment and mental health problems in Reservists. There have been growing concerns regarding mild traumatic brain injury, though this appears to be low in British troops with an overall prevalence of 4.4% in comparison with 15% in the US military. The current strategies for detection and treatment of mental health problems in British forces are also described. The stance of the UK military is that psychological welfare of troops is primarily a chain of command responsibility, aided by medical advice when necessary, and to this end uses third location decompression, stress briefings, and Trauma Risk Management approaches. Outpatient treatment is provided by Field Mental Health Teams and military Departments of Community Mental Health, whilst inpatient care is given in specific NHS hospitals.

Alcohol-related deaths in the United Kingdom, England and Wales, and government office regions in England.

Source agency: Office for National Statistics

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Alcohol-related deaths

Smoking, Drinking and Drugs Use among Young People in England is an annual survey carried out in participating schools across England to provide information on pupils' smoking, drinking and drug use behaviours. The survey focuses on different behaviours in different years, alternating between smoking and drinking one year, to drug use the next.

Source agency: Health and Social Care Information Centre

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Smoking, drinking and drug use among young people in England

Alcohol Consumption DPPO

This statistic displays the proportion of school children who think that their school has given them enough information about smoking, alcohol or drugs in the last year in England in 2023, by school year. In this year, 71 percent of year 11 pupils thought they had been given enough information about smoking, compared to 61 percent of year seven pupils who thought they had been given enough information about smoking.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People surveys began in 1982, under the name Smoking among Secondary Schoolchildren. The series initially aimed to provide national estimates of the proportion of secondary schoolchildren aged 11-15 who smoked, and to describe their smoking behaviour. Similar surveys were carried out every two years until 1998 to monitor trends in the prevalence of cigarette smoking. The survey then moved to an annual cycle, and questions on alcohol consumption and drug use were included. The name of the series changed to Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young Teenagers to reflect this widened focus. In 2000, the series title changed, to Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People. NHS Digital (formerly the Information Centre for Health and Social Care) took over from the Department of Health as sponsors and publishers of the survey series from 2005. From 2014 onwards, the series changed to a biennial one, with no survey taking place in 2015, 2017 or 2019.

In some years, the surveys have been carried out in Scotland and Wales as well as England, to provide separate national estimates for these countries. In 2002, following a review of Scotland's future information needs in relation to drug misuse among schoolchildren, a separate Scottish series, Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS) was established by the Scottish Executive.

The 2023 Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People survey is the first in this series to be carried out using electronic data collection within the classroom setting, rather than paper and pencil.

The methods for constructing each derived variable are available in the Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use GitHub code repository (file derivations.py).

• Social behaviour and attitudes
• Health behaviour
• Drug abuse, alcohol and smoking
• Consumption and consumer behaviour
• Youth

The survey collects information on the proportion of young people aged 11 to 15 who smoke, drink alcohol or take illegal drugs. It includes information on:

• prevalence of smoking, drinking and drug taking among school children
• use of e-cigarettes and emerging drugs
• types of alcohol and drugs taken
• how often pupils smoke, drink and take drugs
• where pupils obtain cigarettes, alcoholic drinks and drugs
• pupils' attitudes to these behaviours
• predictors of the likelihood of smoking, drinking and drug use among school
• from 2018, the survey also collects some information about well-being, and the relationship to risky behaviours

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