Before passing away from the “acute effects of ketamine,” actor Matthew Perry shared details about his use of the drug in his memoir. Friends, lovers and the great terrible thing.
In an excerpt provided by Fox News, Perry wrote about his ketamine use and how he received ketamine infusions daily. “Ketamine was a very popular street drug in the 1980s,” she said. Friends the star wrote. “There is now a synthetic form and it is used for two reasons: to relieve pain and to help with depression.”
Matthew Perry further claimed that the drug has his name written all over it. “You might as well call him ‘Matty,’” he continued. Perry noted that the drug felt like a “giant exhale,” but he said he felt like he was “dying.”
“Oh, I thought, this is what happens when you die,” Perry recalled using ketamine. “However, I kept signing up for this s– because it was something different, and anything different is good.”
Matthew Perry further stated that taking ketamine (or K for him) was like getting hit in the head with a giant, happy shovel. “But the hangover is over,” he admitted. “And it weighed more than the shovel. “Ketamine wasn’t for me.”
Perry reportedly passed away after apparently drowning in the hot tub of his Los Angeles-area residence on October 28. Before he died, he had been active, including playing pickleball the morning of his death. He was 54 years old when he passed away.
The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner released the autopsy report on Friday, December 15, revealing that the actor had died from “acute effects of ketamine.”
Matthew Perry Received Ketamine Infusion Therapy for Depression and Anxiety
According to the autopsy report, Matthew Perry had been receiving a ketamine infusion for depression and anxiety before his unexpected death.
However, it was reported that Perry’s last known treatment was more than a week before his sudden passing. The report confirmed that the ketamine in her system when she died could not have come from the infusion therapy. This is because the half-life of ketamine is 3 to 4 hours or less.
The autopsy confirmed that ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic drug with “established medical and surgical uses.”
Ketamine in Perry’s system was observed to cause both cardiovascular overstimulation and respiratory depression.
The Los Angeles medical examiner’s official further noted that there was no evidence of alcohol, methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, PCP or fentanyl in Matthew Perry’s system. Other factors in the Friends The star’s death was drowning, coronary artery disease and the effects of buprenorphine. No foul play is suspected.
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Source: vcmp.edu.vn