Unlike rates of alcohol-induced death among other groups, which steadily increased from 2000 to 2016, rates among black men and women and Latino men declined over much of the period before increasing in later years. Our results for initial declines have been observed previously.1,25 Explanations for these declines and subsequent increases remain to be determined and speak to the need for studies that carefully investigate trends in both alcohol use and access to appropriate health care and treatment by race/ethnicity, sex, and birth cohort.25
