Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman on Thursday announced a settlement with The Kroger Co. that will bring $110 million to the commonwealth in support of efforts to combat the opioid crisis. The AG announced the agreement at Life Learning Center in Covington, Kentucky, according to a news release from the AG's office.

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

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.