In a recent interview with Shepherd Express, Samad House’s Tahira Malik and Chief Ambassador Caroline Gaston shared powerful insights into addiction recovery, resilience, and the importance of supporting women on the path to sobriety. The conversation highlights Samad House’s mission to provide recovery housing, compassionate support, and holistic resources that help women rebuild their lives and find lasting hope.
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....
Four years ago, Atau Malik lay unconscious on a Milwaukee sidewalk, his life slipping away. He had no idea how he got there, nor did he know that the next few minutes would dictate whether he lived to see his thirty-fifth birthday. Paramedics rushed to his side,...