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The Tragic Results of Drug-Tolerant Housing

Marsha Michaelis
August 14, 2026
Drug Epidemic, Housing, Street Report
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Drug Epidemic
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Nick Allen, 58, died of fentanyl poisoning three months after moving into his taxpayer-subsidized apartment.

Staff found him in his room three days later.

Research Fellow Marsha Michaelis tells this sad tale to illustrate the fatal effects of treating addiction as a disability to be accommodated rather than an adverse condition to be treated.

Marsha Michaelis

Project Coordinator and Research Fellow, Fix Homelessness Initiative
Marsha Michaelis is a project coordinator and research fellow for Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty and the Fix Homelessness Initiative. She interned with Discovery in the late 90’s while studying at Seattle Pacific University, then spent more than a decade directing communications and education reform at a Washington State-based think tank. She left the office to raise and educate her four children, spending another decade directing various homeschool programs and teaching classes from kindergarten through high school. Marsha has written as a columnist and freelancer for numerous state and national publications, most recently and currently for her county’s monthly newspaper. She and her family live in northeast Washington state.