North Carolina's Richard "Red" Lawhern, PhD has spent years debunking PROPaganda about the supposed dangers of prescribed opiate analgesics. His analyses show that they didn't cause the "opioid crisis," that "overprescribing" is a fiction, that both the US prescribing guideline and its Canadian derivative are shady business beyond repair, and that undertreating pain is deadly. While a rethink happens stateside, Dr Lawhern says Ottawa's pain policy remains "fraudulent from one end to the other" and that Health Canada is "racketeer-influenced and corrupt." Asserting untruths about both policy and outcomes, he says, "ought to result in somebody doing prison time."