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Kroger agrees to pay $110M to Kentucky in opioid settlement

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January 9, 2025
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Kroger agrees to pay $110M to Kentucky in opioid settlement

The Kroger Company 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, saying the money was payment for Kroger’s “role in the devastating drug crisis.”

“Kroger and its more than 100 pharmacies across Kentucky were responsible for roughly 444 million opioid doses coming into our Commonwealth over a 13-year period. That’s more than 100 opioid doses for every man, woman and child in Kentucky,” said Coleman.

Coleman filed the lawsuit against Kroger in February 2024, alleging the grocery chain had failed to monitor for suspicious opioid orders and had also fulfilled opioid prescriptions in violation of Kentucky state law.

According to the announcement of the settlement, half of the settlement will be distributed among Kentucky’s counties and cities according to a “pre-determined formula,” while the other half will be entrusted to the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission.

In 2022, Kentucky ranked seventh among U.S. states and D.C. in terms of drug overdose mortality rates, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finding the state had a overdose mortality rate of 53.2 per 100,000.

The Hill has reached out to The Kroger Company for comment.

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