Cosmetic addiction

September 19, 2006

It’s Botox:

Doctors found 40% of patients using Botox expressed a compulsive desire for further treatments.

People need to keep having jabs otherwise the effects of the treatment – which paralyses the muscles – rapidly wears off.

And in a related article:

Less than 10 percent of adults in the US has ever had some type of cosmetic surgery, yet almost twice as many hope to do so at some point in the future, a survey shows.

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