Indoor Tanning Addiction = Anxiety, Drug Abuse?
Apr 19th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Anxiety, FeaturedIndoor tanning has long been linked to skin cancer risk, but anxiety and drug abuse? Yes, according to a new study appearing in the Archives of Dermatology.
In the new study of 421 students from a large Northeastern university, 229 students had tanned in indoor salons. Of these, 160 met criteria for indoor tanning addiction. In general, indoor tanning addicts tanned more frequently than their non-addicted counterparts. The college students who were addicted to indoor tanning were also more likely to have symptoms of anxiety and/or greater use of alcohol, marijuana, and other substances, than their peers who were not addicted to indoor tanning.
“This study provides further support for the notion that tanning may be conceptualized as an addictive behavior for a subgroup of individuals who tan indoors,” conclude study authors Catherine E. Mosher, PhD, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and Sharon Danoff-Burg, PhD, of the University at Albany in New York.
Source: WebMD
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