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If you can't get the basics right then it's hard to take your views seriously.

Alcohol-specific deaths started rising in 1992, not the 2000s

They didn't sit at 400 for decades before - there are only data sets going back twelve years prior.

Deaths haven't dropped a hige amount since the 1990s. They were higher in 2020 than any year in the 1990s.

And perhaps most importantly, you don't deem to grasp the distinction between alcohol-specific deaths and alcohol-related deaths. Alcohol-specific means that the cause of death, medically, is 100% attributable to alcohol i.e. very specific diseases caused by alcohol. Alcohol-related means alcohol played a contributory factor in the cause of death. Stats generally have alcohol-relateds as running between two and four times as high as alcohol-specific, but there is a general acceptance that there is under-reporting when it comes to registering deaths that have multiple attribution codes
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If your going to be pedantic with dates then, it sat at around 400 until the 90s when they started changing how it was compiled. Phe says you can't compare post 2000 to pre , so I won't and its almost a quarter of a century so pointless anyway

Since the peak at the start of the century its came from 1400 to averaging around 1100 in the last 5 years. Its undeniably got better in the last 25 years. Add in overall alcohol consumption dropping , someone at hollyrood is doing something right in the last few decades