The Washington Post (12/11, Bever) reports that fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond appears to have an alcohol problem, researchers concluded in findings (pdf) published in the Medical Journal of Australia. After analyzing “Bond films from 1962 to 2015 to better understand his patterns of alcohol use,” investigators “found that the British spy met more than half of the criteria for alcohol use disorder as defined by the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-5 classification system for mental disorders.”
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— “Shaken not slurred: James Bond had ‘a severe chronic alcohol problem,’ public health experts say, “Lindsey Bever, The Washington Post, December 11, 2018.