Panelists on the Voices of the Front Lines Podcast Tahira Malik CEO/FounderSamad’s House Tahira Malik, founder of Samad’s House. Her personal journey from substance use and incarceration to community leadership inspires others. In 1997, Malik graduated from Alverno...
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Recent overdose death numbers paint a picture of progress. Drug overdose fatalities are falling — across the country and across Milwaukee. But sit with Tahira Malik for a few minutes, and she'll tell you the number that doesn't get a headline: the decline is barely...
Samad's House Frontline Voices Summer 2026 Newsletter The numbers tell a hopeful story. For the third straight year, drug overdose deaths in Milwaukee County have fallen. In 2025, the county recorded 387 fatal overdoses, down a striking 42.6% from the 2022 peak of 674...
For years, Constance Alberts watched the same painful pattern repeat itself. Someone she knew would lose a loved one to a drug overdose. The funeral would come and go. Then life would demand that everyone move on, even when the wound underneath never closed. "It takes...
Sammie Garrett was 31 years old the night his life could have been saved. It was 2011, and he was out with friends, partying as so many young people do. Someone handed him ecstasy pills. What no one knew was that the pills were laced with fentanyl. Sammie collapsed....
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