It was a tragic accident caused by the effects of a number of substances, including ketamine, that took the life of Matthew Perry, the popular and beloved Chandler Bing from Friends. This was determined by the Los Angeles County Department of Forensic Medicine, which released the results of the autopsy performed on the actor's body early Friday afternoon.
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“The death of 54-year-old actor Matthew Langford Perry was due to the acute effects of ketamine,” the statement said, adding that “other contributing factors to his death included drowning, coronary artery disease and the effect Buprenorphine (used) to treat opioid abuse).
“The death was an accident,” the coroner concluded. Perry was found unconscious in the hot tub of his villa in Pacific Palisades, a wealthy and elegant district of the Californian metropolis near Malibu, around 4 p.m. on October 28th. His agent called 911, but when paramedics arrived on scene they could only pronounce the actor dead. The Los Angeles Department of Forensic Medicine conducted an analysis at the scene and then sent the body to the Forensic Science Center for an autopsy.
Approved by the National Drug Agency in 2019, ketamine is a powerful anesthetic that is increasingly being prescribed by U.S. doctors to treat depression or anxiety. Problems that Perry had long suffered from, including drug and alcohol abuse. He himself had told it with moving honesty in his 2022 memoir “Friends, Lovers and the Terrible,” published in Italy by Feltrinelli. The actor underwent ketamine infusion therapy, but the massive concentration found in his blood could not have come from the last session with the doctor, which took place about a week and a half before his death. At the detected concentrations of 3,271 nanograms per milliliter, ketamine can cause “cardiovascular hyperstimulation and respiratory depression.”
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