Series
How to Fix a Drug Scandal
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.
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Seasons & episodes
1Episode 11 Apr 2020 · 52m · ★ 7.7Damning evidence reveals drug lab chemist Sonja Farak's addictions. A scandal erupts, raising questions for the thousands of defendants in her cases.
2Episode 21 Apr 2020 · 60m · ★ 7.5Top state lab chemist Annie Dookhan falls from grace over brazen misconduct and unsettling emails with prosecutors. Farak's trial begins.
3Episode 31 Apr 2020 · 51m · ★ 7.5Farak's disturbing confessions lay bare a broken system. Dookhan takes the fall in court, but suspicions of a high-level cover-up grow louder.
4Episode 41 Apr 2020 · 48m · ★ 7.5The ACLU and dogged defense lawyers fight for justice in the tainted cases as officials and the public absorb the fallout's staggering scale.
Details
- First aired
- 1 Apr 2020
- Last aired
- 1 Apr 2020
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- Netflix
- Episodes
- 4
- Votes
- 39 on TMDB
Cast
- LLuke RyanSelf - Deffense Attorney
Shannon O'NeillSonja Farak- SScott AllenSelf - Journalist, Boston Globe
- SShawn MusgraveSelf - Investigative Reporter
- PPaul SolotaroffSelf - Journalist, Rolling Stone
Karl KenzlerLawyer- JJared OlanoffSelf - Defense Attorney
- AAnnie DookhanSelf - Forensic Drug Chemist (Archive Footage)
- HHeather HarrisSelf - Forensic Drug Chemist
- SSonja FarakSelf - Forensic Drug Chemist (Archive Footage)
- LLinda FarakSelf - Sonja's Mother
