Twitter slammed Trump-appointed opioid czar Kellyanne Conway after she doled out some head-scratching advice to college students purchasing the synthetic pain-relieving drug fentanyl.
Her solution? Eat those carbs, kids! Just snack your way right through the pain!
Speaking at White House millennial forum Generation Next on Thursday, Conway warned the youth of America about opioid abuse by suggesting they stop being so strict about their food consumption.
“On our college campuses, you folks are reading the labels. They won’t put any sugar in their body. They won’t eat carbs anymore, and they’re very, very fastidious about what goes into their body. And then you buy a street drug for five or 10 dollars. It’s laced with fentanyl and that’s it,” Conway said. “So I guess my short advice is, as somebody double your age: Eat the ice cream, have the french fry, don’t buy the street drug. Believe me, it all works out.”
I have to say, I am extremely on board with Conway’s overarching message: Eat what you want, folks! But as far as advice for staying away from opioids, let alone kicking addiction? You’d have to be pretty unknowledgeable as an “opioid czar” to seriously suggest “just eat” as an alternative to drug abuse. As HuffPost pointed out, Conway’s advice smells of President Donald Trump‘s suggested anti-drug campaign in the ’80s tenor of “just say no.”
The internet saw through Conway’s frail advice and called out just how uninformed her words of wisdom seemed to be.
https://twitter.com/dmartosko/status/976893982272819200
it’s Thursday in the desolate Rust Belt, you know what that means: it’s time to eat a single french fry and avoid opiate addiction https://t.co/Y8J4B7NNqT
— Lead Actor from Pixar’s Sodas (@ByYourLogic) March 22, 2018
"Leave the gun and the fentanyl. Take the cannolli." https://t.co/KWeckK1BqQ
— David A. Graham (@GrahamDavidA) March 22, 2018
Millennials: pic.twitter.com/dIR1KqjBWL
— Abe Fremen, Sausage King of Arrakis (@dropkick_murray) March 22, 2018
Kellyanne Conway: Remember when Michelle HUSSEIN Obama told kids they should eat less sugar and more vegetables? That’s how the opioid crisis started. pic.twitter.com/tk3TiJ7B1J
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) March 23, 2018
For people who had become seriously injured and hooked on opioids as a result, changing their eating habits wasn’t going to make the pain disappear, many pointed out.
https://twitter.com/PraxisKenzie/status/976897901472501767
https://twitter.com/sheckyyoungman/status/976896644259065856
When i broke ribs and punctured a lung, that's what they were giving me in ICU. it's not always a choice… A good chunk of opiate/heroin abuse is a byproduct of developed dependence to prescribed drugs
— L (@famouslou) March 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/alainakallas/status/977160791483994112
I really, really feel bad for addicts. Can you imagine looking for life-saving help & the people in charge give you this as a solution?
— Terry Hannan (@terryhannan) March 22, 2018
Believe me? Just don't buy it? It will all just work out? You're kidding right?
What a friggin' disgrace. https://t.co/7BHwSPbAGS
Others just mocked Conway’s poetic delivery.
remember when michelle made a vine to get kids to eat turnips https://t.co/AcIdcAkrIx
— Jake Harris (@JakeHarris4) March 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/TheLincoln/status/976896816108179457
"Eat the ice cream. Have the French fry. Swallow the sadness. Smell the pain. Lick the wounds. Taste the flesh. Become the flesh. Transcend the flesh. Dance with the demons. Lay with the Devil. Don't buy the street drug. Believe me, it all works out."
— @rob-sheridan.com on BSky (@rob_sheridan) March 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/cutasterfee/status/976936363064025088
https://twitter.com/GMPaiella/status/976898506182070272
At least we know what impression Kate McKinnon will pull off on this weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live.
Watch Conway’s misguided ice cream and french fry suggestion below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpJhmm1E69g
H/T HuffPost