Attorney General Coleman sues Kroger for fueling deadly opioid crisis

In News, State by OC Monitor Staff

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Attorney General Russell Coleman announced today the filing of a lawsuit against the Kroger Company for its role in the devastating drug crisis in Kentucky. Between 2006-2019, Kroger and its more than 100 pharmacies in the Commonwealth were responsible for over 11% of all opioid pills dispensed in Kentucky, totaling hundreds of millions of doses flooding into communities without any reasonable safeguards.

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