I hope some pharma underling might have cooked up some good meds for Adams, despite all the pharma bosses and their backers.
Adams was an MBA, a manager that was resentful that his advancement in management was not as fast as he thought it should been when he left Crocker National Bank for Pacific Bell, and then resentful that he couldn't break into management at Pacific Bell, even while publicly mocking Pacific Bell management (I don't mean indirectly in the comics he was writing while working there, but directly in the media interviews he gave about the comics.)
His only problem with the PHB was always that it was someone else sitting behind that desk, and not him.