According to the World Health Organization, health is a state of complete physical, spiritual and social well-being. A healthy lifestyle should lead to ensuring such well-being. The steps to achieve physical well-being are clear: good sleep, quality rest, reasonable physical activity, balanced nutrition, hardening the body. The state is called upon to ensure the social well-being of a citizen. It is more difficult to determine spiritual well-being and ways to achieve it. The human soul gives a state of “mental balance”, “peace of mind”, in which we can talk about spiritual well-being. The soul can “suffer”, “sick”, it can be “heavy at heart”, and then the person feels “unhealthy”. Balance implies the concept of measure, stability and is determined by a person’s ability to control his internal state, adapting to the external situation. A person’s internal state is influenced by sensations, emotions, and experiences. They can change the state of consciousness, both positively and negatively. This is the reason for addictions. Addiction occurs when control over changes in consciousness is impaired. Religious practices, relationships between people, food, gambling behavior, sex, and chemicals can change a person’s state of consciousness. Control can be lost over quantity, quality, over the situation of changes in consciousness, or on all points at the same time. The first thing a person loses is control over the number of attempts to change the state of consciousness, in other words, he begins to “abuse”. This is the first stage of addiction. It doesn’t matter what a person abuses - playing cards, eating sweets or drugs, any abuse is already a disease. At the second stage, control over the quality of the stimulants used and the situation in which abuse is allowed is lost. Loss of control on these points causes problems in social terms. At the second stage of addiction, a person either himself or under the influence of relatives seeks help. At this stage, a variety of attempts at “healing” are made: from simple intimidation to irrational fantastic methods. However, the correct and most effective way would be to teach a person to do without stimulants that cause changes in consciousness, to give him control skills that he has lost for one reason or another. This requires a conscious desire of the person himself to start changing something, a desire to lead a healthy lifestyle. At the level of society and the state, addiction prevention consists of creating conditions for a healthy lifestyle, for the social, spiritual, and physical well-being of citizens. My task, as a psychotherapist, is to support the spiritual well-being of a person, and as a psychiatrist-narcologist, I try to return people to physical, if not well-being, then at least balance.