
|Articles|September 1, 2003
Addicted to the Sun?
Author(s)Chet Scerra
Chicago - There has been no good explanation as to why people who know that too much sun is not healthy continue to sunbathe or go to tanning salons. Now, for the first time, University of Texas researchers have shown that the act of suntanning shares characteristics of other substance-dependent disorders.
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