I'm not sure if the book is as bad at the screenplay and direction, but this one had a great conceptual idea that ultimately burns out quickly. The 100 min runtime felt much longer with all the boring filler. The screenplay felt like it had random scenes cut out and/or was poorly edited. Even the idea of the cat and mouse wasn't concluded, nor why it even started or who ordered it. Never mind it was totally boring and pointless for the movies plot-line.

Just spit it out, and move on with the current drama and all too little excitement. What was the point of that entire outdoor drinking on picnic tables act? The pick-up truck parachute and arrest scenes? The constant repetitive flashbacks only inching each time just a little more facts on her past incident also became annoying. There was way to much time spent on filler and not enough on substance. She'd like to see it called Ben's Law - something akin to the Mental Health Act - which could prevent people with addictions from causing harm to themselves.Too many unnecessary scenes and infantile dialogue riddled with foul language you'd never expect to hear from those spewing it. She's hoping to see legislative changes to privacy laws that could grant family members more control over treatment of their loved ones. The Department of Health, meanwhile, said Monday that it's handed out hundreds of naloxone kits and ordered hundreds more for safe measure. Harm reduction workers told CBC News last week they're hearing reports of the synthetic opioid from front-line workers. Olivero's warning comes just days after the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary warned that fentanyl was in the province to stay and might be seen in greater amounts. They're different diseases, but it's the same outcome.' Just like a dementia patient is not capable. 'His brain was hijacked.… It wasn't his fault. 'It was a freight train coming,' Olivero recalled. But after each stretch of sobriety, he fell back to old patterns, unable to resist the pull. (Submitted by Tina Olivero)įor six years, she says, she'd done all she could to get Ben treatment. 'All I could think about was, 'I got to stop this.' What would Ben want me to do? He would want me to stop this,' she said.īen Olivero, pictured here as a child, had wisdom beyond his years, his mother says. Olivero, now telling her story in the hopes of saving others, believes that's why Ben died. Harm reduction advocates say at least some of the recent deaths are likely due to fentanyl contaminating drugs like cocaine. 'I can't believe he left this world alone.'īen is one of at least 11 people to succumb to drug overdoses in the last month in Newfoundland and Labrador.

'He died by himself,' said Olivero, losing her fight against tears in an interview Wednesday, just steps from where her son took his final breaths. Tina Olivero had just watched her son come back from the brink.īut hours after he left the hospital, revived by naloxone and treated for a suspected opiate overdose, she found police crouched over him, wrestling in vain to save his life once more.īen Olivero, a six-foot-six 'gentle giant,' as his mother put it, died in the early hours of Saturday morning, behind some bushes in a small park on New Gower Street in St. Tina Olivero holds a picture of her son, Ben, at a public memorial in his honour.

They want me dead