The Perry County Fiscal Court has reportedly started talking about what to do with money from a potential opioid settlement with the Kroger Company.
In all Kroger has agreed to pay out $1.4 billion to several state and local governments where they operate, spread out over 11 years.
The Hazard Herald reports the Kroger settlement is separate from a sweeping national opioid settlement with drug makers and the states and counties could still reject it and sue on their own.
But at a meeting earlier this month Judge Executive Scott Alexander said Perry County will fall in line with whatever the state decides as far as accepting or trying to sue for more.
He says any money is useful toward programs to repair some harm done by opioids but it will never fully be enough.