Open case. Los Angeles police officials have launched an investigation into the death of Matthew Perry. The matter focuses on revealing how he received the supply of ketamine, the substance that caused the death of the actor who played the sarcastic Chandler Bing in the series ‘Friends’.
Perry, 54, was found unconscious by an assistant at his Pacific Palisades home on Oct. 28, 2023. He was face down in the hot tub. The autopsy, made public last December, determined that the death was due to “the acute effects of ketamine,” although the coroner described the death as accidental, since he indicated that the actor was taking it in infusions against depression. and no one else’s intervention was considered.
There was, however, one fact that did not go unnoticed. He had an amount of that substance in his blood equivalent to that used in general anesthesia for a surgical intervention. Drowning and other health factors, such as coronary artery disease, and the effect of buprenorphine, the first medication to treat opioid addiction, were elements that contributed to his death.
Ketamine, a drug with long-term use in operating rooms and certain hallucinogenic effects, has become a club drug, popular among young people and adults at raves. And recently there has also been a huge increase in its consumption as a treatment for depression, anxiety and pain.
The coroner also stressed that the last treatment Perry received, a week and a half before his death, could not explain the high levels of ketamine he had in his blood. This drug is generally metabolized within hours. Another factor for suspicions.
Captain Scot Williams, of the Los Angeles police, confirmed this Tuesday that his agents are working with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the US Postal Inspection Service to find out how it was possible that he had as much of that substance in your body when you die. Based on the autopsy, the researchers suggest that the ketamine could have come from another source other than the infusion therapy.
At least two doctors were treating the actor, a psychiatrist and an anesthesiologist, who were his primary doctors. No illicit drugs or surrounding paraphernalia were found in the home.
His various addiction problems dated back to the time of the recording of ‘Friends’, when Perry became one of the biggest stars on television along with his co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt Leblanc and David Schwimmer, during the ten years, from 1994 to 2004, of the broadcast of ‘Friends? on NBC, which achieved massive and global success.
They all became millionaires. But Perry didn’t know how to get off the wave of success. His other projects never achieved the glory or celebrity of that series that elevated him and made him a friend of half the world.
