How to Fix a Drug Scandal

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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Documentary
Crime
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First Aired on

Apr 01, 2020

1 seaons till Apr 01, 2020

Popularity: 2.2376
30 votes
Networks
Production

Jigsaw Productions (US)Abstract (US)

Status: Ended

Show Ended

Last episode: Episode 4

Seasons & episodes

Total 1 seasons, 4 episodes

Season 1

Aired

4 Episodes
  • Episode 1Episode 152 min

    Damning evidence reveals drug lab chemist Sonja Farak's addictions. A scandal erupts, raising questions for the thousands of defendants in her cases.

  • Episode 2Episode 260 min

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

  • Episode 3Episode 351 min

    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 4Episode 448 min

    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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