There is nothing incompatible with a finding that Native Americans and Alaskan Natives are more likely to die of alcohol-related causes than other ethnicities and one that Native Americans are more likely to abstain from drinking, and have similar heavy and binge drinking rates to Whites.<p>(1) Native Americans is not the same group as Native Americans and Alaskan Natives, and<p>(2) &quot;other ethnicities&quot; (than Native American and Alaskan Natives) is not the same group as Whites, and<p>(3) Probably most significantly, its possible for similar overall problem drinking behavior to go along with different rates of alcohol-related death (this would be expected, e.g., if one group had substantially worse access to health care, such that similar results of problem drinking were more likely to result in death.)