Matthew Perry’s death, the source of ketamine, is being investigated by the DEA and Los Angeles Police

Six months after Mathew Perry’s death, a slew of articles from news outlets highlighted that Mathew Perry’s death was due to the anesthetic and psychedelic drug ketamine. 

“Reportedly, Investigators probing Matthew Perry’s death are reportedly still looking into how the “Friends” actor got hold of the ketamine that was found in his system at the time of his death — and are trying to zero in on who is responsible for supplying him with the deadly drug.”

This is stating the obvious: Mathew Perry had an infusion of ketamine two weeks before his death and had been using ketamine many years before his death; he was accustomed to using the drug. The articles highlight that he died from the acute effects of ketamine. However, I wrote in my Substack some months ago that there was more to this story than just acute ketamine ingestion. Since that article, many have agreed with me.

“The 54-year-old actor, who long struggled with addiction, was found dead in his hot tub in October with the near equivalent of the general anesthesia given to surgical patients in his system. Law enforcement sources told TMZ there is an ongoing investigation into where Perry got the ketamine — and who provided him with the toxic drug.”

Interestingly, the police report noted that no paraphernalia related to ketamine was found on the premises. He had a ton of ketamine in his system during the autopsy. Thus, someone removed the ketamine and all ketamine paraphernalia from his premises before the police were called or arrived. See my Substack for the official police report. The investigation will likely lead to documented places where Perry received ketamine, as well as the doctors involved in his care. 

No arrests have been made, and it is hard to say if any will. Someone removed the drug paraphernalia; the assistant, the person who was with him, who knows. But obviously, the ketamine made it into Perry’s system, and the drugs and routes of administration were removed.

“The beloved comedic actor was found dead in the jacuzzi of his home in the ritzy Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles this past October. Initial reports indicated that he had drowned. However, a toxicology report confirmed he died from acute effects of ketamine.”

Again, I stress that it’s still a mystery how Perry could have gotten this much ketamine into his system. On autopsy, there were no reports of IV puncture sites, the pathologist didn’t bother to check, nor were there any signs of intramuscular injections, thus leaving the only route of administration is oral or nasal, which would be challenging to achieve the levels of ketamine measured in his blood per the autopsy report. 

Again, I argue that even with those amounts of ketamine in his system, the moment Perry would have found himself drowning, his hypoxic reflex should have woken him up, and he logically would have put his head above water. Logically, one must ask if something more sinister occurred, such as a cardiac arrest, or if it was a choice.

“He also discussed using ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic with hallucinogenic properties. These experimental treatments are often used to assist with depression, anxiety, PTSD, addiction, chronic pain, and other mental health struggles. “I often thought that I was dying during that hour. Oh, I thought, this is what happens when you die. Yet I would continually sign up for this sh** because it was something different, and anything different is good,” Perry wrote.”

The Daily Wire wrote that ketamine is experimental. That couldn’t be farther from the truth. Hundreds of studies and books have been written on the subject, showing that it’s not experimental. Ketamine works in the right circumstances and can be deadly in the wrong ones. 

“Perry — who was not married and had no children — was open about his decades-long battle with addiction in his memoir, “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing. He went to rehab 15 times and had undergone 14 surgeries to try and mitigate the damage done to his stomach lining due to alcohol and opioid use.”

This is the saddest part of the story is that he invested millions of dollars of his own money to help those addicted to drugs and alcohol, and his foundation probably died along with him. And he spent millions getting sober himself. The ketamine infusions he had been treating for the last five years must have helped with something since he had been drug and alcohol-free since May 2021.