TV series
How to Fix a Drug Scandal
Overview
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.
Details
- First air date
- 2020-04-01
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 4 episodes
- Genres
- Documentary, Crime
- Network
- Netflix
- Production
- Jigsaw Productions, Abstract
- Country
- US
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Luke Ryan as Self - Deffense Attorney
- Shannon O'Neill as Sonja Farak
- Scott Allen as Self - Journalist, Boston Globe
- Shawn Musgrave as Self - Investigative Reporter
- Paul Solotaroff as Self - Journalist, Rolling Stone
- Karl Kenzler as Lawyer
- Jared Olanoff as Self - Defense Attorney
- Annie Dookhan as Self - Forensic Drug Chemist (Archive Footage)
- Heather Harris as Self - Forensic Drug Chemist
- Sonja Farak as Self - Forensic Drug Chemist (Archive Footage)
- Linda Farak as Self - Sonja's Mother
- Amy Farak as Self. Sonja's Sister
Creators and crew
- Alex Gibney - Executive Producer
- Erin Lee Carr - Producer
- Erin Lee Carr - Director
Episodes
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
Top state lab chemist Annie Dookhan falls from grace over brazen misconduct and unsettling emails with prosecutors. Farak's trial begins.
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
The ACLU and dogged defense lawyers fight for justice in the tainted cases as officials and the public absorb the fallout's staggering scale.
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