How to Fix a Drug Scandal
“Frustratingly unbelievable but an essential watch ”
Sonja Farak was the drug lab chemist tasked with testing narcotics for the state of Massachusetts. She was also, secretly, consuming them. How to Fix a Drug Scandal traces how her addiction corrupted thousands of cases — and how the justice system, once it knew, chose to look away.
What elevates the docuseries beyond a standard institutional failure story is the scale of the cover-up. Prosecutors hid evidence for years while hundreds of people sat in prison on the strength of tainted results, and the series methodically lays out who knew what and when.
The interviews with the people wrongfully convicted give the scandal a human weight that statistics never could. Their anger is justified, and the series wisely lets it land without softening it.
Rigorous, infuriating and essential, this is true crime about the system itself — and how badly it can fail.
What to know before you watch
Is How to Fix a Drug Scandal worth watching?
- A rigorous, infuriating docuseries about a corrupted drug lab and a cover-up that reached the top. 7.5/10.
What is How to Fix a Drug Scandal about?
- The four-part Netflix docuseries about Sonja Farak, the Massachusetts drug lab chemist whose addiction falsified thousands of results and led to hundreds of overturned convictions.
What should I watch after How to Fix a Drug Scandal?
- The Case Against Adnan Syed
- The Tylenol Murders
- The Pharmacist
The verdict
7.5/10