In the spirit of full disclosure. Is the reporter Karen Howlett aware of or affiliated with any anti-pharma group that some of the people she has interviewed perhaps may be, especially Dr. Navindra Persaud (a member of the committee)? There appears to be some 
considerable effort to bring a highly regarded family physician (pain specialist) member of the 2017 opioid guideline committee into disrepute. He has now been personally identified in at least three G&M articles on this story to date.