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'Dopesick' author Beth Macy on escaping poverty -- and then going back home

By Dave Davies
Published October 7, 2025 at 9:40 AM MDT

Macy returned to the Ohio factory town where she grew up to find jobs have left, families are struggling and old friends now embrace conspiracy theories. Her new memoir is Paper Girl.

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