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Extreme Sports comes to Denver!

I was honored to be a consultant on the Beyond Human Limits exhibit and I was excited to hear that it is on it’s way to Denver Colorado. It opens September 13, 2019. If you are in the Denver area, be sure to check it out.

For more information on the Denver Museum of Science and Nature take a look here.

https://www.dmns.org/visit/exhibitions/extreme-sports/

For more information on Beyond Human Limits watch this video!

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Come see me discuss the story behind Buzz! in Boulder Colorado!

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I’ll be at the Boulder Bookstore on Wednesday, November 6th at 7:30pm. Come hear me talk about the story behind the book. I'll also be there to sign books and to answer questions about the thrill-seeker's I interviewed.

Click here for tickets!

Kenneth Carter will speak about and sign his new book, Buzz!: Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers, Daredevils, and Adrenaline Junkies, on Wednesday, November 6th at 7:30pm.

More info TBA

Vouchers to attend will be $5 but are not yet on sale. Vouchers are good for $5 off the author’s featured book or a purchase the day of the event. Vouchers can be purchased in advance at the store, over the phone, or at the door. Readers Guild Members can reserve seats for any in-store event.

Event date:

Wednesday, November 6, 2019 - 7:30pm

Event address:

1107 Pearl Street

Boulder, CO 80302

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Sensation Seeking and and Oxycodone

by Na’eem Gibson

            High sensation seekers tend to seek a wide array of sensations to satisfy their urges and impulses.  Ranging from relatively low risk activities such as skydiving or recreational drug use, to dangerous activities like reckless driving and drug abuse, high sensation seekers tend to find themselves apart of experiences involving such as those previously mentioned.  In a study conducted by James P. Zacny, he came to find that like many other drugs, oxycodone had varying effects on male and female high sensation seekers and low sensation seekers.  As expected the high sensation seekers generally responded with overwhelmingly positive reactions to the opiate while the low sensation seekers responded with a mix of euphoric and dysphoric effects.

            While it is expected for a high sensation seeker to find the novel effects of oxycodone pleasurable and it is expected for low sensation seekers to find the effects disturbing, the addition of both female and male sensation seekers varied the results quite a bit.  In the study Zacny found that male high sensation seekers did not report the dysphoric effects that the male and female low sensation seekers reported such as nausea or general confusion.  Zacny’s experiment was not the first of its kind as many others have compared potential differences in drug abuse between low sensation and high sensation seeks, but it is the first to do the comparison study between the two types of sensation seekers concerning their reactions to opioids.  

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091305709003566?via=ihub

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Einstein was a Big T+

            High-Sensation seekers, those characterized as creative, disinhibited, and witty boundary-pushers are everywhere.  Your mother, father, best friend, or even your grandmother could be a high sensation-seeker and you wouldn’t even know it.  Perhaps you’d gather that they were a bit more exciting than the average person, but never considered any of them to be high sensation-seekers.  In Christopher Munsey’s APA (American Psychological Association) article titled “Frisky, but more risky”, Munsey discusses Temple University psychologist Dr. Frank Farley’s studies in high sensation-seekers.  Dr. Farley points out that high sensation-seekers are real, prevalent, and could even be considered their own personality type. 

            Dr. Farley describes the high sensation-seeking personality trait as “the Big T personality” with the “T” standing for “thrill seeking”.  The Big T personality can be either a positive Big T personality or a negative Big T personality.  Big T negative personalities may be involved in crimes or violence simply for thrill, which starkly contrast Big T positive personalities, which are those who find thrills in physical or mental activities, examples being Mt. Everest mountain climber and Albert Einstein respectively.  The mountain climber finds thrill in the reaching the top of mountain despite the sheer possibility of plummeting to his demise, and Albert Einstein found his research and discoveries to be thrilling

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What's this all about?

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I'm sure if you've visited this page you may wonder what's this all about? Why the sudden interest in high sensation seeking? What exactly IS high sensation seeking. At last...the reveal:

Several years ago I started thinking about how some people tend to complicate their lives more than seemed necessary. People who were always running late, never and had offices that looked kinda like a ticker tape parade. They almost invited chaos into their lives. Although only slightly related, looking through journal articles I discovered a description of a particular personality type. I high sensation seeking personality type. These individuals are adrenaline lovers and buzz junkies. But it's more than you might think. There are 4 pieces to the buzz junkie. 

1 They love thrill and new adventures.

2 They get board easily (with people and experiences).

3 They seek new mental and physical experiences.

4 They are impulsive and some times uninhibited.

Before you get too frightened, there are 2 things to remember. First, we all seek the buzz. It isn't inherently bad. It's just a few of the buzz junkies are so drawn to exciting experiences that they get themselves into trouble with their buzz seeking habits. 

This leads me to today. I'm writing a book about buzz junkies and creating a page for research (this one) and a companion page (soon) to gather and share stories about buzz junkies. 

Thanks for joining me on this journey and please share this with your friends who might get a buzz from this research. 

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