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excerpt:"Researchers from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and State University at Albany used questions like these, adapted and modified from measures used to screen patients for substance abuse disorders, to determine whether college students were addicted to indoor tanning.
Of a group of 421 university students recruited for a study in late 2006, 229 participants had used indoor tanning facilities. Of that group, the researchers found 70 to 90 appeared to be addicted to tanning, depending on the criteria used to assess addiction.
"I was surprised by the high percentage," said Catherine E. Mosher, a postdoctoral research fellow in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and lead author of the paper, which appears in the April issue of Archives of Dermatology.
Those who met the criteria for addiction to indoor tanning also had significantly higher rates of anxiety and use of drugs and alcohol, the stu
