Episode description

Between 2003 and 2013, two women, at two separate labs, were tampering with critical drug evidence for very different reasons. Today we dive into the cases of Sonja Farak and Annie Dookhan whose falsified reports led to the one of the biggest drug scandals in Massachusetts history.

Sources:

https://shawnmusgrave.github.io/farak-dookhan//farak

http://www.forensicsciencesimplified.org/drugs/how.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/04/476755684/ex-chemist-in-massachusetts-was-high-on-drugs-at-work-for-8-years

https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2016/05/04/sonja-farak

http://badchemistry.legacy.wbur.org/timeline#43

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2012/12/20/indicted-drug-analyst-annie-dookhans-e-mails-reveal-her-close-personal-ties-to-prosecutors

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/drug-lab-cases-information#sonja-farak-drug-lab-cases-

https://www.wbur.org/news/2018/10/11/farak-cases-dismissed-by-sjc

How to Fix a Drug Scandal, Netflix