He has previously blamed a bad reaction to alcohol, antibiotics and prescription drugs for his behaviour.
Another possible systematic bias might be that public health researchers start from position that alcohol is bad for you and bad for society.
In the heyday of the East India Company, the single biggest cause of death of the company's employees was not mad dogs or scorpions, but the familiar drug of alcohol (aggravated by bad diet and lack of exercise).
Clean living probably helps: alcohol clouds judgment and lubricates bad deals.
To tackle the edgy orginal programs that they appear to be branding themselves with, Starz recently hired Chris Albrecht, the former CEO of HBO who stepped down from his position in 2007 amid a slew incidents of bad behavior that included sexual harrasment and alcohol abuse.
Unlike smoking where the government can simply say it is bad for you, the message for alcohol has to be much more nuanced as there is no evidence that drinking within recommended levels is harmful and some research has even suggested it may be beneficial to health.
"When we're looking at the alcohol figures there's good and bad news in there at the same time, " he told the BBC.
Epidemiological studies have found that bad living--smoking, drinking too much alcohol, feasting on cheeseburgers--is responsible for 80% of one's risk of heart disease and almost all of the risk of diabetes.
It could have been alcohol, or cortisone he was taking for his bad hip, or simply elevated levels of natural testosterone in his system.
But psychiatry as a field has been skeptical of the idea of people being addicted to behaviors, because there is not proof that a bad habit is the same kind of biological issue as a dependence on alcohol, nicotine, or heroin.
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