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Los Angeles, United States—US police said Tuesday they are investigating the ketamine overdose death of “Friends” actor Matthew Perry, who died at his luxury Los Angeles home last year.
An autopsy found the cause of his death was “the acute effects of ketamine,” a controlled drug which the recovering addict was understood to be taking as part of supervised therapy.Just how the actor—who reportedly not had a supervised infusion session for several days—obtained the drug is now the subject of a legal investigation.
Doctors and veterinarians often employ ketamine as an anesthetic, and researchers have explored its use as a treatment for depression. Underground users take it illicitly for its hallucinogenic effects. But Perry’s comic talent, which brought him fabulous wealth, hid a darkness that left him struggling with addictions to painkillers and alcohol.In his memoir “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing,” published in 2022, Perry described going through detox dozens of times. He dedicated the book to “all of the sufferers out there,” and wrote in the prologue: “I should be dead.”
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