The once dead meme, “I Narcanned Your Honor Student,” which means that even an honor student can overdose, has resurfaced the internet with bumper stickers of the meme sold, bought, and used once again.
With the recent COVID cases and the excessive use of the medicine, Fentanyl, an opioid analgesic for relieving respiratory symptoms, has brought about the rise of Narcan, a drug helping with the overdose effects of Fentanyl has caused the sudden rise of the meme again.
Let us learn more about the meaning behind the phrase circulating on the internet and how the term came to be an internet meme.
“Narcanned Your Honor Student” Meaning
Narcanned Your Honor Student is a meme that started circulating on Reddit, which another user explained to have a dark meaning behind it. People started using it after an honor student died overdosing on drugs.
So, people started using the phrase signifying that even honor students are using drugs, not just dropouts and unsuccessful people. It may have been created with deeper meaning, but at the end of the day, it became just another meme for dark-humored people.
Narcan is a brand of drug which helps people who overdose on opioids, so the phrase translates to helping someone get out of their addiction.
Twitter users are flooding Twitter with the phrase, and people are excited about the merch of the meme that includes t-shirts with the words written on them along with stickers that people are using on their car bumpers.
What Is Narcanned? Urban Dictionary Definition
According to Urban Dictionary, Narcan is a brand of medicine that is an opiate receptor blocker used to treat people with an overdose of opioids, morphine, or heroin.
The exact meaning of the term “narcanned” is not mentioned in the urban dictionary, but it is used to define the process of minimizing the effects of analgesic drugs in a hospital setting.
Narcanned started being used by people as a dark meme, where it was combined with the words honor student as a means to spread awareness that drug abuse is not only a problem that poor, unsuccessful people face.
The meme started circulating in 2015 on Reddit, but the comeback of the phrase began after COVID with the use of opioids to treat some significant respiratory issues in the patients.
It was used in a hospital setting to battle the effects of the drug fentanyl, mainly in Pennsylvania, with the disease outbreak.
With rumors of opioids treating the disease and the widespread drug abuse in the nation, Narcan became a major treatment drug for the solution of overdosing among people. As we know, social media loves dark humor.
So despite the seriousness of the issue, the meme started circulating all through social media, leaving people confused about the meaning behind the “I Narcanned Your Honor Student” stickers on people’s doors and bumpers.
Some people on the internet love the new meme, while some are confused as to why such a severe topic has become a laughing matter.