Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
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.
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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.
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Discovery Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan, public policy think tank promoting thoughtful analysis and effective action on local, regional, national and international issues.
The mission of Discovery Institute is to advance a culture of purpose, creativity and innovation.
The Institute is home to an inter-disciplinary community of scholars and policy advocates dedicated to the reinvigoration of traditional Western principles and institutions and the worldview from which they issued. Discovery Institute has a special concern for the role that science and technology play in our culture and how they can advance free markets, illuminate public policy and support the theistic foundations of the West. For more information about the mission and program of Discovery Institute visit: discovery.org/about
Follow Discovery Institute:
X: @DiscoveryInst1
https://x.com/DiscoveryInst1
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Follow Fix Homelessness:
fixhomelessness.org
X: @DiscoveryCWP
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