Interesting, Alcohol consumption over-all has declined since the start of the 20th century with the US seemingly being alone among advanced nations in having an

Interesting, Alcohol consumption over-all has declined since the start of the 20th century with the US seemingly being alone among advanced nations in having an increase in the last 10 years.[1] It seem logical the rise in death from alcoholism is broadly related to the "death from despair" phenomena many credit for declining US life expectancy. [1]https://ourworldindata.org/alcohol-consumption https://ourworldindata.org/alcohol-consumption, see chart "Alcohol consumption per capita"