Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman announced a $110 million opioid settlement with Kroger on Thursday.
“For over a decade, Kroger tragically fed the flames of the drug addiction fire that rages across every county of our Commonwealth,” Coleman said at the Life Learning Center (LLC) in Covington, Kentucky.
“But this devastation isn’t the end of the story: Kentucky is resilient, and we get back up, no matter how many times we are knocked down.”
With the settlement, Kroger no longer aligns itself with the problem but with the solution, he said.
LLC President Alecia Webb-Edgington introduced Coleman, stating that the opioid epidemic has taken a devastating toll on the community and praising Coleman’s “tireless commitment” to finding solutions to the problem….