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In an abrupt shift, the National Institutes of Health said it won't take money from the pharmaceutical industry, and will instead fund the study exclusively through taxpayer dollars. In other news on the crisis: a look at the U.S. Public Health Service's Commissioned Corps, a 6,500-strong group of health experts fighting the epidemic; how the surgeon general's advice for Americans to carry naloxone will play out; more states are taking the fight against drugmakers to the courts; and more.