LA police probe how Friends star Matthew Perry obtained lethal ketamine dose

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Witness interviews said he had been undergoing ketamine infusion therapy for depression and anxiety.

LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles homicide detectives and federal agents are investigating how Friends star Matthew Perry obtained the high dose of the powerful prescription drug ketamine that was found in his body andThe disclosure on May 21 of an ongoing criminal probe by police and two federal agencies came five months after the Los Angeles County medical examiner concluded that Perry succumbed to an accidental drug overdose and drowning, with no foul play suspected.

A police spokesperson said detectives from the LAPD's robbery-homicide division were conducting the police inquiry. Perry, 54, who publicly acknowledged decades of drug and alcohol abuse, including the years he starred as Chandler Bing in the hit 1990s television sitcom Friends, had been sober for 19 months with no known relapses before his death, according to interviews cited in his autopsy.

 

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