The book tells in an entertaining way with sparkling humor and inimitable irony about life in an ordinary small village rehabilitation center for people suffering from alcohol and drug addiction “Northern Lights”, seen through the eyes of a middle-aged man who came to such an institution for the first time. The author tried to reveal in an accessible and understandable form, the main aspects of addiction as a chronic, incurable, progressive and deadly disease recognized by WHO, and spoke about one of the few possible options for successfully combating this insidious disease. Contains obscene language.