Coleman's office said the event at the Life Learning Center will reveal one of the largest opioid settlements in recent Kentucky history.

By Andy Furman NKyTribune reporter It was a win – for Kentucky. And a big one. The Attorney General of the Commonwealth, R-Ky., Russell Coleman called it an “Historic Opioid Settlement Announcement.” Speaking at a media announcement,

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman announced a settlement with Kroger that will bring $110 million to Kentucky in support of efforts to combat the opioid crisis. “For over a decade, Kroger tragically fed the flames of the drug addiction fire that rages across every county of our Commonwealth.

Kentucky's attorney general says the state will receive $110 million to settle its lawsuit accusing one of the nation's largest grocery chains of helping fuel the opioid epidemic.

The Kroger Co. has agreed to pay Kentucky $110 million to settle a lawsuit filed last year alleging it pumped millions of doses of opioids into the state over the course of more than a decade. Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman (R) announced the settlement Thursday,

Kroger has agreed to pay $110 million to resolve a lawsuit by the state of Kentucky alleging the supermarket chain's pharmacies helped fuel a deadly opioid epidemic by flooding its communities with hundreds of millions of doses of addictive painkillers.

The suit alleged Kroger bought more than four billion morphine milligram equivalents of opioids for Kentucky between 2006 and 2019, roughly equivalent to 444 million opioid doses. The company distributed almost 194 million hydrocodone pills to its Kentucky pharmacies between 2006 and 2019,

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman announced a $110 million settlement with Kroger in his lawsuit against the grocer for its role in the opioid crisis.