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#MobilizeRecovery 2025, Sept-Oct ‘25. Follow along as we engage in meaningful community action. End overdose. End addiction. Support solutions for recovery.

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Ready to Be Part of History?

50 years ago, Operation Understanding changed everything by breaking the silence around recovery. Today, we’re bringing that same vision into 2026 and we need you in it.

Across the country, people are stepping up: hosting events, sharing real stories, organizing in their communities, and showing the world what recovery really looks like.

Will you join us?

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Happy Pride Month! 🌈

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Operation Understanding 2026 is focused on building the training, education, and organizational infrastructure needed to carry the recovery movement forward. Advocates, partner organizations, and allied professionals interested in contributing to this work are encouraged to reach out and get involved. To learn more and take action, visit https://t.co/SWCBCsY1RQ

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Join us TONIGHT!📢

We’re coming together virtually to share exciting ways grassroots recovery community advocates can get involved all year long — including local community engagement, in-person convenings, digital actions, trainings, and more virtual events.

Whether you’re new to advocacy or a seasoned leader, this is your opportunity to plug in and help shape the future of recovery.

Reserve your Spot: 7pm EST.

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Recovery happens in every sector of American life — in hospitals and union halls, in schools and courtrooms, in small businesses and federal agencies. The lesson of the 52 is that addiction has never been limited to one community, and neither has recovery. The movement belongs to everyone willing to be part of it.

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Mobilizers! It’s that time of year!

Join us this Thursday for the Mobilize Recovery 2026 Campaign Announcements!

We’re coming together virtually to share exciting ways grassroots recovery community advocates can get involved all year long — including local community engagement, in-person convenings, digital actions, trainings, and more virtual events.

Whether you’re new to advocacy or a seasoned leader, this is your opportunity to plug in and help shape the future of recovery.

Reserve your Spot: Thursday, May 28th at 7pm EST.

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Mobilize Recovery is partnering with the Global Exchange Conference (GXC) 2026 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, December 6–9. This convening will bring together recovery advocates, clinical professionals, and policy leaders for what is expected to be the largest gathering of its kind. Discounted registration passes are available exclusively through Mobilize Recovery. Register and learn more at https://t.co/qCyPdXwDIC. #mobilizerecovery #operationunderstanding

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Operation Understanding 2026 is being built through partnerships across healthcare, criminal justice, education, employment, and housing. Each sector that was represented on the Shoreham risers in 1976 has a counterpart working today to continue that mission. We are grateful for every organization committed to this work.

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Language has always been central to the recovery movement. The shift from stigmatizing terminology to person-first, clinically accurate language was not accidental — it was the product of decades of deliberate advocacy, beginning with events like Operation Understanding in 1976. How we speak about addiction continues to shape how we treat the people who have it. Find out more at https://t.co/qCyPdXwDIC. #mobilizerecovery #operationunderstanding

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Operation Understanding changed how many Americans perceived addiction. Yet stigma remains a documented barrier to treatment access across healthcare, criminal justice, employment, and housing. The work that began in 1976 continues — and it requires advocates, allies, and institutions willing to push further.

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In the five decades since Operation Understanding, the United States has seen the creation of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the expansion of Employee Assistance Programs, and the development of evidence-based addiction treatment at scale. Each of these advances traces its roots, in part, to the courage of 52 people who stood on a stage in 1976.

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The 50th anniversary of Operation Understanding marks a moment of reflection and recommitment. The 52 pioneers of 1976 demonstrated that organized, public advocacy could change the way a nation understood addiction. That work is not finished — and the recovery movement of 2026 is its direct continuation. For more information, visit https://t.co/qCyPdXwDIC. #mobilizerecovery #operationunderstanding

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50 years ago, Operation Understanding changed the recovery movement forever. Today, we're honoring that legacy and building what comes next.

Operation Understanding is back, bringing together advocates, families, and communities across the country to strengthen recovery and create lasting change.

🗓️ Events happening nationwide
📖 Stories that break stigma
🛠️ Tools & resources to take action
💙 A movement you can join

Whether you're in recovery, supporting a loved one, or simply believe in hope and healing, there's a place for you here.

Learn more and get involved: https://t.co/SWCBCsY1RQ

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Today marks the 50th anniversary of Operation Understanding. On this day in 1976, 52 pioneers broke the silence of addiction. Their legacy is the global recovery movement of 2026. #mobilizerecovery

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Day 47: The Shoreham Hotel remains a landmark in the history of public health. The 1976 event is cited as a turning point in the sociology of addiction.

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Day 46: The resilience of the 52 pioneers serves as the historical foundation for the modern recovery movement.

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Day 45: In 1976, public disclosure of alcoholism was a career risk. These individuals accepted that risk to ensure future generations would not have to.

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Day 44: The men of the 52 demonstrated that seeking help was an act of strength, directly challenging the "silent" stoicism expected of men in the mid-century.

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Day 43: A tribute to the women who worked alongside Marty Mann to ensure that the female experience of addiction was accurately represented on the national stage.

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Day 42: The collective vision of the 1976 participants was a world where medical treatment for addiction was as accessible as treatment for any other chronic illness.

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