Statistics on Alcohol, England, 2018 [PAS]

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:

• Adult Drinking Habits which is being published by ONS on the same day as this report.
• New analyses of data on affordability of alcohol using already published ONS data.
• Information on the volume and cost of prescriptions from NHS Digital.

The latest information from already published sources 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).
• Alcohol-specific deaths published by ONS.
• Health Survey for England (HSE).
• Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use (SDD).
• Road casualties involving illegal alcohol levels published by Department for Transport.
• Family Food report from the Living Costs and Food Survey (LCFS).