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Mohammad Shinwary Found Curled Up in a Car

Marsha Michaelis
June 9, 2026
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His friends thought he’d gotten clean in jail. He was out for a week when they found him dead from fentanyl poisoning in their carport. He’d had at least ten interactions with the justice system in Washington State. He had social services paperwork in his backpack. But never an intervention that helped him overcome his addiction and reclaim his life.

Addiction is at the root of most homelessness. It’s time to aggressively reorient our solutions toward treatment, recovery, and restored lives.

RIP Mohammad Shinwary, 1986-2026. God rest your soul.

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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.