The Real Reason People Become Addicted. | Ft. Govind Palita | RiFoM Podcast

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]The chances of you becoming addicted to a substance are much higher because what that substance does is it takes you away from the here, the now. It is somewhere else. What we call a high, what we say is a high. It may not be a high like, you know, literal high. Like heroin is a downer, cocaine is an upper. If I classify all of that as a to give it a term, if I call it a high, that is not here. Anywhere but here is better. That is what is the base case scenario for any addict. That is what causes that.

[00:00:30]So, for all my love for drama and passion for acting and, you know, all of that, I had to be away from that because I couldn't deal with that. Whatever it brought, the good or the bad or the ugly, that high that I started chasing became where I wanted to be all the time. Not here, there.