Eight months after the death of Matthew Perry, the Los Angeles police continue to investigate the circumstances of the tragedy.
“People” magazine reveals that several people could soon be charged.
At the heart of the matter: the taking of ketamine, an anesthetic used in the treatment of depression.
New twist in the Matthew Perry “affair”. Last October 28, the unforgettable Chandler from the series Friends was found dead in the jacuzzi of his Los Angeles home. The Los Angeles County forensic pathology office concluded that it was an accident, attributing the tragedy to the acute effects of taking ketamine. An anesthetic that the actor was injected as part of psychiatric treatment for his depression. End of the story ? Not quite.
On May 22, to everyone’s surprise, the Los Angeles police revealed that they were continuing their investigations into the circumstances of the death of the 54-year-old actor. The question that investigators then asked themselves: how did Matthew Perry obtain the fatal dose of ketamine when he had not had a supervised injection session several days before the tragedy?
A molecule diverted as a drug
A month later, a source close to the investigation revealed this Wednesday to People what “several people” involved in this complex case could soon be indicted. The decision rests with the Attorney General of California who is currently refusing to comment. But it could relaunch the debates around ketamine in the treatment of depression.
Although it has already been approved for several years in the United States and Europe in the face of suicidal crises and in the case of so-called resistant depression, some psychiatrists remain reluctant. Without denying its effectiveness, they fear the risk of addiction, especially since the molecule is often misused as a drug by certain patients. As might be the case for Matthew Perry.
Long-time depressed, the actor struggled for years with his addiction to painkillers and alcohol. In his memoirs published last year, he confided having undergone 65 withdrawal sessions, spending more than nine million dollars trying to cure himself. He had also undergone several surgeries related to his problems, including a seven-hour colon surgery in 2018.I should be dead“, he wrote.
