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Power Over Addiction: A Harm Reduction Workbook for Changing Your Relationship with Drugs using CBT, DBT, and Mindfulness Kindle Edition

4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 109 ratings

Recovery from addiction is not a one-size-fits-all approach. If your previous attempts to stop drug or alcohol use have failed or if you want to learn to manage your use rather than abstain, this workbook can help you.

Power Over Addiction: A Harm Reduction Workbook for Changing Your Relationship to Drugs uses evidence-based interventions from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and mindfulness practices to help you understand the issues underlying addiction and stop problematic drug use.

This workbook will help you:

  • reduce consequences associated with the use of alcohol and drugs
  • learn mindfulness skills to slow down and interrupt the desire for immediate gratification
  • address feelings of shame and guilt
  • “surf” urges
  • establish practices to cope with difficult emotions such as anger and grief
  • develop alternatives to drug use
  • improve the quality of your relationships, including with yourself
  • learn responsible drug use skills
  • cultivate a lifestyle that meets your needs and wants
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Editorial Reviews

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"This excellent workbook will be of real value to anyone who wants to change the way they use drugs -- whether they want to quit, reduce, use more safely, or just better understand what drugs mean and do for them. The exercises won't always be easy, but they will help people get to the heart of their relationship with drugs, giving them more power to make choices they are happy to call their own."
-Hanna Pickard, PhD, Professor in Philosophy of Psychology, University of Birmingham and Visiting Research Scholar,Program in Cognitive Science, Princeton University

"...the workbook is filled with thoughtful and penetrating questions that will make it not only effective for those struggling with problematic drug use, but useful for anyone who wants to incorporate positive changes in their life."
-Monique Tula, Executive Director, Harm Reduction Coalition

"Jennifer Fernández, PhD has written a wonderful book of exercises for people who practice harm reduction. They include exercises for mindfulness, relationships, boundaries, anger, stress, shame, and many more. I highly recommend this book to all HAMS members as a companion to the HAMS book as well as to anyone who uses drugs or alcohol."
-Kenneth Anderson, CEO, HAMS Harm Reduction for Alcohol and author of How to Change Your Drinking: A Harm Reduction Guide to Alcohol.

"Dr. Fernández's new workbook is an incredibly welcome addition to the tools available for those struggling with substance use. She has assembled a set of strategies that pull from many evidence-based approaches including motivational, behavioral, and mindfulness based approaches. The strategies are accessible, practical, and geared toward real behavior change. I particularly love the "Note to Loved Ones" sections throughout the book, which offer compassionate and helpful tips to families struggling to know how to help in real ways."
-Jeffrey Foote,Ph.D., Co-Founder & Executive Director, Center for Motivation and Change and author of Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change.

"...a wonderful addition to the growing body of resources for helping people who struggle with problematic drug use and their families make positive change with drugs and the personal and relationship issues problem drug use reflects. Dr. Fernández combines state-of-the-art knowledge about theories of addiction and how people change with practical user-friendly suggestions and exercises that guide people toward their ideal relationships to drugs. The harm reduction frame makes this workbook useful for people at all motivational stages of change and positive change goals including safer use, reduced use, and abstinence. I highly recommend that this book sit within close reach on the shelf of every drug user and those who care about them."
-Andrew Tatarsky, PhD is the author of Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A New Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems and Executive Director of the Center for Optimal Living

"If you have a loved one suffering from addiction, you should read this book. If you're a treatment provider working with people suffering from addiction, you should study this book. If you're a politician drafting addiction-related legislation (because I know you don't read), you should speak with Dr. Fernández immediately."
-Dr. Carl Hart, Chair of the Department of Psychology at Columbia University

"This incredibly helpful workbook is a welcome addition to a growing goldmine of harm reduction resources in the U.S. In an inviting and clear style, Dr. Fernandez offers the reader a wealth of information about drug use and the contextual, mental, emotional, and physical issues that are part of a drug-using life. She takes a balanced perspective on the ways that drugs are valuable and the ways they can be harmful to each person. This point of view helps to relieve the shame and stigma that surround drug use. Dr. Fernandez covers a phenomenal number of self-awareness and practical skills that one needs to change longstanding patterns. The chapters are concise and the exercises easy to use. All of this makes Power Over Addiction a delight to read and use."
-Jeannie Little, LCSW, Executive Director of The Center for Harm Reduction Therapy

"This compassionate and easy-to-read workbook can help you or a loved one learn to change—or end— a problematic relationship with substances. There is hope— and this book can help you figure out what path is right for you."
-Maia Szalavitz, author of Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction

From the Back Cover

Recovery from addiction is not a one-size-fits-all approach. If your previous attempts to stop drug or alcohol use have failed or if you want to learn to manage your use rather than abstain, this workbook can help you.

Power Over Addiction: A Harm Reduction Workbook for Changing Your Relationship to Drugs uses evidence-based interventions from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and mindfulness practices to help you understand the issues underlying addiction and stop problematic drug use.

Harm reduction is a pragmatic approach to addiction that aims to improve the lives of people who use substances through social justice, education, compassionate care, and access to resources. Harm reduction values life, choice, respect, and compassion over judgment, stigma, discrimination, and punishment.

This workbook will help you:


  • reduce consequences associated with the use of alcohol and drugs
  • learn mindfulness skills to slow down and interrupt the desire for immediate gratification
  • address feelings of shame and guilt
  • "surf" urges
  • establish practices to cope with difficult emotions such as anger and grief
  • develop alternatives to drug use
  • improve the quality of your relationships, including with yourself
  • learn responsible drug use skills
  • cultivate a lifestyle that meets your needs and wants

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09NYM9B76
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Invisible Work Press (December 20, 2021)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 20, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 41966 KB
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Jennifer Fernandez PhD
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Jennifer Fernández, PhD specializes in harm reduction psychotherapy for treating addiction with dually diagnosed adults, teens, and families. She provides training, supervision, and consultation on harm reduction, and evidence-based treatments for substance use disorders. She is passionate about drug education and compassionate care for people who use drugs and alcohol. She is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and runs a group private practice in San Francisco, CA.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2021
    Dr. Jennifer Fernandez NAILED IT when they created this workbook. I'm a psychotherapist in Washington, DC, who has specialized in the area of substance use treatment for over sixteen years. Dr. Fernandez did a WONDERFUL job identifying the fundamental principles and skills-sets that individuals with substance use issues need to understand and address in order to work on their goals for substance use. If someone asked me what concepts individuals need educationally to begin working on their substance use, I would basically be reciting the chapters listed in this workbook. My understanding is that this workbook was not meant to be a deep-dive into research, but to offer a well-informed structure for exploring what goes into one's personal relationship with a substance, to encourage acceptance and self-compassion in the process of honoring relationships with substances regardless of motivation for change, to learn from challenges and setbacks instead of reinforcing shame, and to begin to consider what might be needed if one chooses to make changes. Dr. Fernandez, THANK YOU for taking the time to create this resource for our field, for making this information/wisdom accessible for those who might not have access to client-centered therapy for substance use, and for those who, for various reasons, are going the self-help route in order to address their substance use. - Kris Oseth
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2024
    I love this book. It has very helpful information
  • Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2018
    I am a Harm Reduction counselor in the SF Bay Area and this book will be very useful in my work. It's newly in the market and I already have one client who is using it and finding it very helpful and relevant in her treatment. It has lots of information, affirmation and exercises. It can be a workbook to use on your own or alongside a provider to explore your relationship with drugs and alcohol. This book is innovative and genuine in it's approach to addiction. I thoroughly recommend it.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2022
    I am an addiction specialist, on the ground floor
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2018
    Dr. Fernandez brings years of experience to this book, which serves as a very easy-to-read and easy-to-use handbook for using harm-reduction in substance abuse treatment. Whether you are a person seeking help for yourself or for your client, you will be so happy you picked up this excellent book!
    7 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2020
    A MUST HAVE FOR ANYONE IN ACTIVE ADDICTION, FOR A LOVED ONE STRUGGLING IN ADDICTION THAT WOULD LIKE TO PRACTICE ABSTINENCE. HARM REDUCTION. I can’t recommend this workbook enough
    5 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2018
    A super helpful and practical workbook. Highly recommend for anyone dealing with addiction or those who want to help others dealing with addiction
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2022
    The contents is good for the field I'm in. When I got the book, it was damaged.

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