How to Fix a Drug Scandal

How to Fix a Drug Scandal

2020
1 Season
6.9
DocumentaryCrime

The four-part docuseries revolves around Amherst, Massachusetts, drug lab chemist Sonja Farak who became addicted to the narcotics she was supposed to be testing. In covering her tracks, Farak falsified thousands of results and opened the door to overturning hundreds of wrongful convictions.

Episodes

Episode 1
E1Apr 1, 202052m

Episode 1

Damning evidence reveals drug lab chemist Sonja Farak's addictions. A scandal erupts, raising questions for the thousands of defendants in her cases.

Episode 2
E2Apr 1, 20201h

Episode 2

Top state lab chemist Annie Dookhan falls from grace over brazen misconduct and unsettling emails with prosecutors. Farak's trial begins.

Episode 3
E3Apr 1, 202051m

Episode 3

Farak's disturbing confessions lay bare a broken system. Dookhan takes the fall in court, but suspicions of a high-level cover-up grow louder.

Episode 4
E4Apr 1, 202048m

Episode 4

The ACLU and dogged defense lawyers fight for justice in the tainted cases as officials and the public absorb the fallout's staggering scale.

Top Cast

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Luke Ryan

Self - Deffense Attorney

Shannon O'Neill

Shannon O'Neill

Sonja Farak

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Scott Allen

Self - Journalist, Boston Globe

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Shawn Musgrave

Self - Investigative Reporter

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Paul Solotaroff

Self - Journalist, Rolling Stone

Karl Kenzler

Karl Kenzler

Lawyer

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Jared Olanoff

Self - Defense Attorney

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Annie Dookhan

Self - Forensic Drug Chemist (Archive Footage)

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Heather Harris

Self - Forensic Drug Chemist

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Sonja Farak

Self - Forensic Drug Chemist (Archive Footage)