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Did they control for age? We have an unprecedented number of older people now, too.



They do break it out by age as well.

snipped to imgur: https://i.imgur.com/yLTwL3J.png

Edit: my original comment may have implied that I was minimizing the importance of the issue, which I hope wasn't the impression I gave -- it's striking that the only good news whatsoever is a small reduction in alcohol deaths among black people, which was canceled out and then some in drug deaths.




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