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Paper: https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14239

A few notes:

- It's comparing absolute, not per-capita, numbers. The US drinking age population is up >20% since 1999, so that accounts for some of this rise.

- The paper spends a lot of time discussing the fact that alcohol isn't reported completely in death certificates.

- Alcohol-related drug overdoes are broken out separately from alcohol overdoses, and this is up 580% (!) from 1999

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Are people also dying less of other things prematurely?

You're the right person to ask this I think - what is likely the attributable cause of death responsible for this? Mostly the overdoses, or other disease-related things?

Not an expert at all; I just read the paper. The paper suggests it's about a few things, like the opioid epidemic, increased binge drinking, and more reporting from coroners.

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