kentucky attorney general russell coleman has announced that the commonwealth will receive 110-million dollars to settle its lawsuit accusing one of the nation’s largest
grocery chains of helping fuel the opioid epidemic…..
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the funds from the settlement with kroger company will be used to combat an addiction that has ravaged communities and given kentucky some of the nation’s highest
overdose death rates…..
the suit alleged that kroger accumulated about 444-million doses of opioids to distribute in the commonwealth between two-thousand-six and 20-19….. amounting to
11-percent of all opioid pills sold in kentucky during that time……
