Tina Olivero holds a picture of her son, Ben, at a public memorial in his honour. (Malone Mullin/CBC)
Tina Olivero had just watched her son come back from the brink.
But 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.
Ben Olivero, a six-foot-six “gentle giant,” as his mother puts it, died in the early hours of Saturday morning, behind some bushes in a small park on New Gower Street in St. John’s.
“He died by himself,” said Olivero, losing her fight
