I am sharing this article, which details charges for those who obtained ketamine for Matthew Perry and injected him with it. Ketamine has been approved by the FDA for treatment-resistant depression and is also sold as an illicit drug. 

Perry, the actor who played Chandler Bing on the television sitcom “Friends,” was found dead in his home in October after using ketamine. While all deaths due to substance use are tragic, the fact that licensed doctors are allegedly involved in the procurement of the ketamine that resulted in Perry’s death is especially disturbing.

“We allege each of the defendants played a key role in his death by falsely prescribing, selling, or injecting the ketamine that caused Matthew Perry’s tragic death,” said DEA Administrator Anne Milgram.  “Matthew Perry’s journey began with unscrupulous doctors who abused their position of trust because they saw him as a payday, to street dealers who gave him ketamine in unmarked vials.”

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