We learned Friday that ketamine killed Matthew Perry. And now we’re learning more about how the drug affected him.
According to the medical examiner’s toxicology report, the primary cause of death was “the acute effects of ketamine.” The anesthetic, which the Friends star had been taking through prescribed infusion therapy, somehow ended up in his system the day he died.
That was, per the report, a week and a half after it should have been out of his system — implying he may have been self-medicating with it.
The ramifications of that are upsetting as Perry was, even per the M.E.’s report, supposed to have been clean and sober for 19 months before his death.
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