Monday, April 18, 2016

SNL's Tasteless Heroin Commercial

Last December, NBC News reported that the Center for Disease Control said 47,000 Americans died of opioid overdoses in 2015, up 14 percent over 2014. Regrettably, I know two families who lost sons to heroin overdoses last week.

Yet NBC's Saturday Night Live broadcast this faux commercial over the weekend. Did they think it was funny? The speedball reference was especially hard-hearted given John Belushi's overdose in 1982.

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