How to Fix a Drug Scandal
2020 · 1 season · 4 episodes · Ended · Netflix
Documentary, Crime
TMDB 7.0 · 39 votes
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
- S01E01Episode 12020-04-0152m
Damning evidence reveals drug lab chemist Sonja Farak's addictions. A scandal erupts, raising questions for the thousands of defendants in her cases.
- S01E02Episode 22020-04-0160m
Top state lab chemist Annie Dookhan falls from grace over brazen misconduct and unsettling emails with prosecutors. Farak's trial begins.
- S01E03Episode 32020-04-0151m
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.
- S01E04Episode 42020-04-0148m
The ACLU and dogged defense lawyers fight for justice in the tainted cases as officials and the public absorb the fallout's staggering scale.
Cast
- Luke RyanSelf - Deffense Attorney
Shannon O'NeillSonja Farak- Scott AllenSelf - Journalist, Boston Globe
- Shawn MusgraveSelf - Investigative Reporter
- Paul SolotaroffSelf - Journalist, Rolling Stone
Karl KenzlerLawyer- Jared OlanoffSelf - Defense Attorney
- Annie DookhanSelf - Forensic Drug Chemist (Archive Footage)
- Heather HarrisSelf - Forensic Drug Chemist
- Sonja FarakSelf - Forensic Drug Chemist (Archive Footage)
- Linda FarakSelf - Sonja's Mother
- Amy FarakSelf. Sonja's Sister