
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.
- Created By
- First Aired on
Apr 01, 2020
- Popularity: 2.2376
- 30 votes
- Networks
- Production
Jigsaw Productions (US)Abstract (US)
- Status: Ended
Show Ended
1 seaons till Apr 01, 2020
Last episode: Episode 4
Seasons & episodes
Total 1 seasons, 4 episodes

Season 1
Aired
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.
Top Cast
- Luke Ryan
Self - Deffense Attorney
- Shannon O'Neill
Sonja Farak
- Scott Allen
Self - Journalist, Boston Globe
- Shawn Musgrave
Self - Investigative Reporter
- Paul Solotaroff
Self - Journalist, Rolling Stone
- Karl Kenzler
Lawyer
- Jared Olanoff
Self - Defense Attorney
- Annie Dookhan
Self - Forensic Drug Chemist (Archive Footage)
Crew & Team

Director