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Aug. 16th, 2005 12:39 pmThe PeterMarcus 2005 award for the stupidest media disease of the year: ultraviolet light (UVL) tanning dependent:
Warning over suntan 'addiction'
Apparently, if you ask some sunbathers the same questions psychiatrists ask addicts, with sunbathing replacing addictive activity such as drinking ("Do you find yourself limiting your sunbathing, but find yourself sunbathing anyway?") from 25%-53% of sunbathers they asked fall into categories displaying addictions. So, do the psychiatrists think that maybe their addiction questionnaires need to be tweaked? Nope, they trust the tests blindly and suddenly discover an epidemic of sun addicts.
Warning over suntan 'addiction'
Apparently, if you ask some sunbathers the same questions psychiatrists ask addicts, with sunbathing replacing addictive activity such as drinking ("Do you find yourself limiting your sunbathing, but find yourself sunbathing anyway?") from 25%-53% of sunbathers they asked fall into categories displaying addictions. So, do the psychiatrists think that maybe their addiction questionnaires need to be tweaked? Nope, they trust the tests blindly and suddenly discover an epidemic of sun addicts.
