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.

Half of the funds will go to the local governments, with the other half going to the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Commission.

The lawsuit, filed last year, accused Kroger pharmacies of dispensing 11 percent of all opioid pills statewide over 13 years, totaling 444 million doses.