Matthew Perry: Police open investigation into source of ketamine which killed Friends star | US News

Police have launched an “open investigation” into the source of the ketamine that killed actor Matthew Perry.

Perrybest known for making pranks Chandler Bing in FriendsHe died at his Los Angeles home last October after being found unconscious in the pool.

An autopsy found his death was an accident due to “the acute effects of ketamine.”

Ketamine is a sedative that can be used as a recreational drug, as well as to treat depression.

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The Los Angeles Police Department is now working with the Drug Enforcement Administration as part of an investigation into why Perry, 54, had so much ketamine in his system at the time of his death.

People close to Perry told investigators he was receiving ketamine infusion therapy, an experimental treatment, according to his autopsy.

However, the medical examiner wrote that Perry’s last treatment was a week and a half before his death and did not explain the levels of ketamine in his blood.

Perry He died at age 54 on October 23.. He had also drowned in “the heated end of his pool”, in what the medical examiner described as a secondary factor in his death.

They added that “he had apparently been clean for 19 months.”

Speaking to NBC’s Today host Hoda Kotb on her Making Spaces podcast in March, Perry’s stepfather said The star “felt like he was overcoming” his battle with addiction.

Keith Morrison, an award-winning Dateline NBC correspondent, said his stepson “didn’t get to have his third act, and that’s not fair.”