Authorities have arrested at least one person in connection with the death of American actor Matthew Perry from an accidental ketamine overdose last year.
The information was revealed by a police sourcewho was not authorized to comment on the details of the ongoing investigation and spoke to the AP agency on condition of anonymity. Authorities have scheduled a press conference in Los Angeles to announce details of the case this Thursday.
Los Angeles Police said in May that they were working with the DEA and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service on an investigation into why Perry, 54, had so many surgical anesthesia in your system.
An autopsy determined in December that he died from the effects of ketamine
An assistant found Perry face down in his jacuzzi on October 28, and emergency services who were called immediately pronounced him dead. They are autopsypublished in Decemberfound that the amount of ketamine in your blood was in the range used for general anesthesia during surgery.
Use of the decades-old drug has increased tremendously in recent years as a treatment for depression, anxiety and pain. People close to Perry told forensic investigators that she was receiving a ketamine infusion therapy.
But the medical examiner said Perry’s last treatment a week and a half before wouldn’t explain the ketamine levels in his blood. The drug is typically metabolized within hours. At least two doctors were treating Perry, a psychiatrist and an anesthesiologist who served as his primary care physician, according to the medical examiner’s report. No illicit drugs were found in his home.
The ketamine was mentioned as the main cause of deathwhich was determined as a accident no other suspicions, according to the report. He drowning and other medical problems were contributing factorsthe coroner then said.
Perry maintained for years a fight against addictionwhich dates back to his time in ‘Friends‘, when it became one of the biggest television stars of his generation in the role of Chandler Bing next to Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc y David Schwimmerfor 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004 in the hit comedy from NBC.
