Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman announced a $110 million settlement with grocery chain Kroger to combat the opioid crisis.
In a February 2024 lawsuit, the Attorney General's Office alleged that Kroger was responsible for pumping the equivalent of 444 million doses of opioids into Kentucky over 13 years with no internal monitoring system to report suspected abuse.
Between 2006 and 2019, Kroger and its more than 100 pharmacies were responsible for more than 11% of all opioid pills dispensed in Kentucky.
The Attorney General's Office said half of the settlement funds wil...
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