How to Fix a Drug Scandal

7.0IMDb Score
Released:2020-04-01
Duration:5060 min
Director:Erin Lee Carr
Actors:Luke Ryan, Shannon O'Neill, Scott Allen, Shawn Musgrave, Paul Solotaroff
Production:Jigsaw Productions, Abstract

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.

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