'Saturday Night Live' News Update: Fake Drug Commercial, Criticized and Leads to Outrage

By Dipannita - 20 Apr '16 06:50AM
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"Saturday Night Live" suddenly missed the plot by featuring a fake drug commercial advertising and promoting it as an option for people "who want to use heroin" and at the same time, lead a normal life and not get too affected by it.

This revelation in the form of a sketch on Saturday Night Live, has received a lot of criticism and defamation from fans and specifically mothers of drug addicts.

According to reports, the commercial shows, well known actress Julia Louis playing a school bus driving mom, portraying and promoting a product which appears as an over-the counter medicine, but is a drug which enables addicts to consume it and then continue with their routine life and work. The drug is easily available in gummy bears, and consumers can take it in the form of a meltdown or also via injection to their body.

Such open propaganda of heroin has cast a lot of negative sentiments on the show with mothers of addicts demanding an official apology from the executive producers of the commercial. As per Maureen Cavanagh, founder of Mongolia New Beginnings, it was assumed that after the sad demise of the beloved members of the cast, owing to an excessive addiction to heroin, a serious repellence to heroin was expected but unfortunately, that was not the case. According to the founder, the sketch has made a complete mockery of a serious health hazard.

Tom Farley was also taken aback by the coldness of the entire venture, stating that it was absolutely not expected from the creators. The seriousness of the entire issue is instrumental in the fact that there has been an unprecedented rise in the death of Americans by 13% from 2013 to 2014, due to the consumption and addiction to the drug, which has been precisely advocated in the commercial sketch.

There has been a further demand of apology and boycott of the show and extreme aberrance to the sketch - something which the creators definitely not pre-empted.

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