The boy who spent months living in a fentanyl-filled tent off Aurora Avenue just celebrated his 10th birthday. He got a cake, gifts, and a haircut. Right now, his biggest concern is finding a little carrier to hold all of his toy cars.
His mother, who was deep in fentanyl addiction while her son lived surrounded by human waste, used condoms and drug smoke, is five months into her fentanyl recovery in a sobriety-based shelter.
They’re both living in a facility run by The More We Love, a Seattle-based nonprofit that requires sobriety as a condition for staying. Not managed addiction. Not harm reduction. Recovery…