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Luke Ryan
Self - Deffense Attorney
TV 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.
Top cast
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
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)
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Linda Farak
Self - Sonja's Mother
Creative team
Erin Lee Carr (Director)
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Episodes
4 Episodes
011. 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.
022. Episode 2
Top state lab chemist Annie Dookhan falls from grace over brazen misconduct and unsettling emails with prosecutors. Farak's trial begins.
033. 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.
044. 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.