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How to Fix a Drug Scandal

How to Fix a Drug Scandal

★ 7.0/10•2020•50m•TV-MA•Documentary•Crime
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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.

Erin Lee Carr · Director

StatusEnded
Runtime50m
LanguageEN
First Air DateApr 1, 2020

Episodes

Episode 1 - Episode 1E152m

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.

Apr 1, 2020

Episode 2 - Episode 2E260m

Episode 2

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

Apr 1, 2020

Episode 3 - Episode 3E351m

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.

Apr 1, 2020

Episode 4 - Episode 4E448m

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.

Apr 1, 2020

Actors

Luke Ryan

Self - Deffense Attorney

Shannon O'Neill

Shannon O'Neill

Sonja Farak

Scott Allen

Self - Journalist, Boston Globe

Shawn Musgrave

Self - Investigative Reporter

Paul Solotaroff

Self - Journalist, Rolling Stone

Karl Kenzler

Karl Kenzler

Lawyer

Jared Olanoff

Self - Defense Attorney

Annie Dookhan

Self - Forensic Drug Chemist (Archive Footage)

Heather Harris

Self - Forensic Drug Chemist

Sonja Farak

Self - Forensic Drug Chemist (Archive Footage)

Linda Farak

Self - Sonja's Mother

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