Saturday, April 04, 2020

'How to Fix a Drug Scandal' Review


About seven years ago, two separate Massachusetts drug-lab chemists, Annie Dookhan and Sonja Farak, were arrested on charges that they didn't faithfully execute their jobs. (Dookhan allegedly lied in her lab results. Farak allegedly tampered with evidence.) What happened? And what do these cases have to say about the War on Drugs? For MEL, I reviewed the new Netflix documentary How to Fix a Drug Scandal.