Alcohol, health and wellbeing The National Records of Scotland’s Alcohol-specific deaths publication shows that there were 1,276 alcohol-specific deaths registered in Scotland in 2022. This is the highest number of alcohol-specific deaths registered in a year since 2008 (1,316). 2 Public Health Scotland’s Alcohol related hospital statistics show that there were 31,206 alcohol-related hospital admissions (stays) in Scotland in 2022- 23.