Son of a wealthy Texas oil-company attorney, he was a bingedrinker who suffered from bouts of depression.
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The Children's Commissioner for England has warned that in the UK, nearly one in three children lives with a parent who is a bingedrinker.
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Despite running a thriving medical practice, he had become a bingedrinker, notes The Guardian in a May 2010 profile, and by 1997 was regularly being admitted to the hospital.
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