{"id":119,"date":"2010-10-18T13:29:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T13:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/?p=119"},"modified":"2010-10-29T14:08:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T14:08:26","slug":"are-you-addicted-to-tanning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/2010\/10\/18\/are-you-addicted-to-tanning\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Addicted to Tanning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/files\/2010\/10\/tanning-bed-dangerous.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[119]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-120\" style=\"margin-left: 18px;margin-bottom: 12px\" title=\"tanning-bed-dangerous\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/files\/2010\/10\/tanning-bed-dangerous-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recent studies have demonstrated that individuals can develop physical and\/or psychological addiction to sunbathing or use of tanning beds.\u00a0 Frequent tanners feel compelled to maintain their tanning schedule (similar to smokers and alcoholics).\u00a0 Recent studies suggest that tanning addicts may become addicted to opioids (endorphins) that are released during tanning.\u00a0 A 2006 study showed that when frequent tanners took a medication that blocks endorphins they experienced severe withdrawal symptoms similar to heroin addicts.\u00a0 A 2007 study showed that more than 1 in 10 college students demonstrate symptoms of tanning addiction.\u00a0 Frequent sun tanning or use of tanning beds greatly increases the risk of skin cancers and melanomas.<\/p>\n<p>Kaur M, Liguori A, Lang W, Rapp SR, Fleischer AB Jr, Feldman SR.\u00a0 Induction of withdrawal-like symptoms in a small randomized, controlled trial of opioid blockade in frequent tanners.\u00a0 J Am Acad Dermatol. 2006 Apr;54(4):709-11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent studies have demonstrated that individuals can develop physical and\/or psychological addiction to sunbathing or use of tanning beds.\u00a0 Frequent tanners feel compelled to maintain their tanning schedule (similar to smokers and alcoholics).\u00a0 Recent studies suggest that tanning addicts may become addicted to opioids (endorphins) that are released during tanning.\u00a0 A 2006 study showed that &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/2010\/10\/18\/are-you-addicted-to-tanning\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-dzarnosky","4":"post-119","6":"format-standard"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}