According to the report -- dated April 1 -- Farak started by dipping into the lab's methamphetamine "standard," a sample chemists use as a benchmark to test against substances submitted by police for testing.
By the time she was arrested, she had moved on to ketamine, LSD and cocaine samples that had been submitted to the lab -- and all without detection of her colleagues, supervisors and, in some cases police, Healey's office found.
By 2011, Farak had "exhausted" the standard samples for the methamphetamine, amphetamine, and ketamine inside the lab, while leaving the cocaine standard "substantially diminished."
She also began using cocaine directly inside the lab, including at her own workstation and in some cases while other employees were present, investigators found.
It progressed to the point that in 2012 when Farak was cooking crack cocaine inside the state lab after normal hours or when she worked overtime, dissolving the powdered cocaine in water, adding baking soda, and heating it up to form crack.
