How to Fix a Drug Scandal (2020)

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.
- First aired
- 2020-04-01
- Genres
- Documentary, Crime
- Seasons
- 1 (4 episodes)
- Status
- Ended
- Directed / written by
- Erin Lee Carr
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 from 39 votes
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
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