Perry died from “acute exposure to ketamine,” an autopsy report found. Photo: Penske Media
An An investigation has been launched into the death of Friends actor Matthew Perry and how he obtained the powerful prescription drug ketamine, which has been identified as a contributing factor in his death.
Revealed in Tuesday's criminal investigation by police and two federal agencies comes five months after the Los Angeles County medical examiner concluded Perry died of an accidental drug overdose and drowning, with no foul play suspected.A Dec. 15 autopsy report concluded that Perry died from “acute ketamine effects,” which combined with other factors to cause the actor to pass out and slip underwater in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home.
< "Based on forensic findings, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), with assistance from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the United States Postal Inspection Service, continued to investigate the circumstances surrounding Mr. Perry's death," police said. This is stated in a statement by the Los Angeles Police.
A police spokesman said the police investigation was being conducted by detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery-Homicide Division.
An autopsy showed that toxicology tests found ketamine, a short-acting anesthetic with hallucinogenic properties, in dangerously high levels in Perry's system. concentrations that are within the range typically associated with general anesthesia used in supervised surgical care.
Cardiac ischemia. , the effects of buprenorphine, an opioid addiction drug also found in his system, and drowning were listed as contributing factors in his Oct. 28 death.
Matthew Perry and Courteney Cox pictured together in 2006. Photo: Getty Images
Perry, 54, who has publicly acknowledged decades of drug and alcohol abuse, including years when he starred as Chandler Bing on the hit 1990s television sitcom, had been sober for 19 months without any known relapse before death, according to interviews cited in his autopsy. .
The report interviewed witnesses who said he was receiving ketamine infusion therapy for depression and anxiety. But his last known treatment was a week and a half before his death, so the ketamine found in his system by forensic experts must have been administered after the last infusion, an autopsy found.
“The exact method of administration in Mr. Perry's case is unknown,” the report said, adding that trace amounts of ketamine were found in his stomach. No needle marks were found on his body.
How the actor could have obtained ketamine himself or who could have supplied it to him remains open to question, and according to an LAPD spokesman, that is not the case. at the center of an ongoing investigation.
A DEA spokesman declined to comment on the investigation, referring media inquiries to the Los Angeles Police Department.
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