Kelsey Starks in for Renee Shaab this evening.

>> Kentucky is giving more than 12 million dollars to groups on the front lines of fighting addiction.

Today, Attorney General Russel Coleman and announced 51 organizations will get the latest round of funding from the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission.

Now, that's an organization responsible for distributing Kentucky's share of nearly 900 million dollars.

Recouped from settlements with opioid companies.

>> This is blood money purchased by pain and the devastation of families across this commonwealth, which is why we must the such stewart's of this money.

There's no margin of error anymore.

And drug use because of the presence of fentanyl.

the synthetic opioid, that's 50 to 100 times stronger.

Then morphine.

You can assume that there's fentanyl and every th the pill that's handed from student to student saying this will help yet.

With this test or after a practice after a tough football This came out of.

But as medicine cabinet, this will also help not job.

There's no margin of error.

And so we have to approach prevention differently.

>> Drug overdose deaths in Kentucky fell nearly 10% last year, marking a second year in a row of annual decline.

Still, though, more than 1900 Kentuckians died.

Fentanyl accounted for almost 80% of those deaths.

Attorneys General Coleman made today's funding announcement at Dv 8 Kitchen in Lexington.

It offers second chance employment opportunities for people in the early stages of recovery.

And today received $151,000 grant as part of