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How to Fix a Drug Scandal

DocumentaryCrime

Two Massachusetts drug-testing laboratory technicians are caught tampering with and falsifying drug evidence, and prosecutors are reluctant to disclose the full extent of their criminal behavior.

Year

2020

IMDb

7.1

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Cast

Erin Lee Carr

Director

Shannon O'Neill

Sonja Farak

Karl Kenzler

Lawyer

Cast

Erin Lee Carr

Director

Shannon O'Neill

Sonja Farak

Karl Kenzler

Lawyer

Annie Dookhan

Self - Chemist

Daniel Marx

Self - Defense Attorney

Paul Solotaroff

Self - Journalist, Rolling Stone

Martha Coakley

Self - Massachusetts Attorney General

Shawn Musgrave

Self - Investigative Reporter

Sonja Farak

Self - Chemist

SA

Scott Allen

Self - Journalist, Boston Globe

Jared Olanoff

Self - Defense Attorney

LR

Luke Ryan

Self - Defense Attorney

David Sullivan

Self - Northwestern District Attorney

Maura Healey

Self - Massachusetts Attorney General

Linda Farak

Self - Sonja Farak's Mother

Amy Farak

Self - Sonja Farak's Sister

Kris Foster

Self - Assistant Attorney General

Daniel Conley

Self - Former District Attorney, MA

Robin Whitney

Self - Former Massachusetts State Police

JA

Josh Adler

Writer

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King_Feena👑Apr 28, 2023

How to Fix a Drug Scandal (2020-2020) Amazing doc about the drug testing system, and the lengths the District Attorney and Attorney General's offices are willing to take to keep injustice contained and not investigated. This shows the egregious faults and clear conflict of interest in the prosecutorial process by allowing their own prosecutors to determine what is, and what is not, relevant to the defense. They have a duty, a sworn and solemn responsibility, to turn over any exculpatory evidence in discovery to the defense. This doc clearly shows just how flawed that premise is at the cost of social justice and affection thousands of people. A 4 part series everyone should be aware of. And it's just One of the many roadblocks to justice systemic in the judicial process. Don't even get me started on the for profit prison systems, the worst case of conflict of interest I can think of, or the fact that after serving out their complete sentences, felons are never free of the stain as they attempt to renter society in an endlessly uphill battle to find employment, gain housing, secure loans, or even reacquire their basic rights as citizens like their right to vote! This whole system and the fact that over 60% of all inmates are for drug related offenses as a result of a 50 year old misguided drug policy which has clearly been demonstrated to be an utter failure. Punishing drug users with jail time and treating them as criminals instead of the addicts they are needing treatment, is a policy which completely fails to address the real problem and sadly has contributed to a US per capita incarnation rate higher than Any Other Country In The World! Is that really a #1 ranking we wish to have or can be proud of? I think not.

Aziz_LamyaeApr 28, 2023

This should have been a documentary film instead of a four episode mini series. The episodes are filled with so many repeated flashbacks and images that if you would leave them out it could be two episodes shorter. Because of that it doesn't have a nice flow and I feel like they could have easily told the story in 90 minutes. I also am not a fan of the reconstructions with actors, but that's just a personal thing. Seeing ''Farak'' on the stand telling her story and in the lab working made the whole thing feel like the story itself wasn't interesting enough to make the documentary.

user1017981037704Apr 28, 2023

Why should we feel sorry for criminals? Who cares if a drug chemist was high at work? These criminals were arrested for selling or doing drugs.... they should do time regardless of what a chemist did at work... These attorneys would rather let criminals out on the street than letting their pride go? I mean, would you feel good about yourself if you got your drug dealer client out of prison and then they killed someone over drugs? Just because of a technicality? I don't feel sorry for anyone in this documentary and Netflix tried really hard to turn this into a sob story about people who deserve to be locked up. This documentary could have been edited down into a one hour special. Netflix was going strong with Tiger King and should have quit while they were ahead... but they decide to release this garbage...

K A M Y N AApr 28, 2023

Honestly.. What was this documentary trying to tell us?

Uneissa AmujiApr 28, 2023

I hesitate to even call this a credible documentary. As is typical of these long drawn out Netflix documentaries, too little actual content is stretched out over multiple episodes. This material coiuld have easy been covered in a concise 90 minutes. I get that every presumption of innocence is afforded suspects in our system. This, quite unfortunately, allows guilty criminals to get off on technicalities. Its a bad deal for the law abiding public in many ways, yet the makers of this material almost seem to celebrate it. Its a stretch to say this really has anything to do with the failed 'war on drugs. This is the worst Netflix doc I've yet to see. Stay away.

Alazar Pro EthiopiaApr 28, 2023

A strung-out documentary series, which could have been condensed down to an individual hour long documentary. Nothing very interesting reveiled. Unless you want to fall asleep......I wouldn't bother!