Six posters bearing the first names of the 11,169 people in Massachusetts who died of opioid overdoses from 2008 to 2017 are displayed in Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healeyâs office as she announces a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma. KATIE LAnNAN STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE The court document scrolls on the screen like an eternal list of sorrow. The plaintiffs include Flint, Mich., the Navajo Nation, Nantucket, the cities of Holyoke, Fall River and Northampton, Her Majesty The Queen In Right of The Province of British Columbia, and the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians, whose people now are in Wisconsin. It also includes the cities of North Adams and Pittsfield among the other entities and communities ravaged by the opioid crisis and entitled to settlements from the Sackler family, founders and owners of OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma. And it includes people like Gary Pratt, a Sheffield man who says he lost years of his life because of a painkiller that was marketed as ânonaddictiveâ and approved by the Food and Drug Administration.