Alcohol & Drugs
Information for Professionals
Brief
Purpose of the brief:
This briefing aims to provide an overview of alcohol-related harms in Lanarkshire. The focus is on understanding the extent of alcohol consumption, the associated health and wider impacts, and to describe what we are doing locally to reduce alcohol-related harm.
Resources
Alcohol consumption and Harms Dashboard
Public Health Scotland provides data and evidence around alcohol-related harms with the aim of aiding identification of where progress in reducing harm is being made, alcohol trends or where policy and/or service improvements may be required.
Data is provided for alcohol related hospital admissions, alcohol related mortality, alcohol consumption, alcohol related crime and Justice, and alcohol dependency in relation to homelessness.
Dynamic charts and data downloads are available at NHS Board-level and local authority level.
Drug and Alcohol indicators
The Scottish Public Health observatory provide a search for alcohol and drug indicators at different geographies including NHS Board, local authority, health and social care partnership localities and intermediate zones.
Alcohol Indicators report on child protection, community safety, environment, alcohol hospital admissions and deaths, alcohol prevalence, alcohol services.
Drug indicators similarly report on child protection, community safety, drug related hospital admissions and deaths and drug services.
Public Health report with links to Rapid Action Drug Alerts and Response (RADAR) report
Public Health Scotland (PHS) provide data on both drug service and drug harm indicators through the RADAR dashboard. Downloadable data is available on naloxone administration incidents by Scottish ambulance service, drug-related attendance at emergency departments, drug-related acute hospital admissions and suspected drug deaths.
Service indicators are also available to provide data on specialist drug treatment referrals, opioid substitution therapy, and injecting equipment provision. Indicators can be broken down by time and by NHS Board-level.
Quarterly Reports are also available from RADAR which summarise data on drug related harms, service usage and toxicology data. The data provides early warning of emerging drug trends and identifies actions to reduce and prevent drug harms and deaths.
Drug and alcohol information system (DAISy)
The DAISy link is a national database that reports on people presenting for initial assessment at specialist drug and alcohol treatment services.
Publications include a summary, a report, data files and open data that provides an annual update.
Data is broken down at NHS board and alcohol and drug partnership levels.
Map with alcohol indicators
Using digital maps, this web resource allows you to visualise the availability of Alcohol outlets (both off sales and on sales) in Scotland.
Availability can be explored at the neighbourhood level using the geography of Scottish Government Data Zones. Availability can also be visualised across a range of 14-other geographies, such as Local Authorities or NHS Health Boards.
In addition, availability of alcohol can be seen across time, with information on availability provided for the following years: 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2023.
North Lanarkshire
The Strategic Commissioning Plan
The Strategic Commissioning Plan sets out how the Health & Social Care Partnership plans and delivers services for North Lanarkshire. The Plan provides data on population change, life expectancy trends, poverty and deprivation, along with critical public-health indicators such as the drug-related death rate and alcohol-related mortality.
The document also contains the Strategic Needs Analysis, P33, presenting data on demographics, population projections, life expectancy, care-at-home provision, unscheduled care activity, self-directed support, delayed discharge trends, and long-term conditions. It further explores the needs of children and young people, mental health, care in the last six months of life, outpatient activity, cancer incidence, births and deaths, smoking prevalence, primary care demand, and broader health inequalities.
South Lanarkshire
South Lanarkshire Joint Strategic Need Assessment
The Strategic Needs Assessment for South Lanarkshire HSCP provides a detailed analysis of local health and social care needs. It covers population demographics, life expectancy, and health inequalities, alongside lifestyle factors like smoking, alcohol use, and mental health.
The report highlights the social determinants affecting health, and patterns in healthcare service use. It also identifies disparities in access and outcomes, guiding targeted strategies to improve health equity and service delivery in the community.
