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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Arrest made in death of Matthew Perry
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 15:32:21 -0000 (UTC)
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Someone leaked to AP that an arrest had been made in connection with the
death of Matthew Perry. It doesn't say who nor what his role was in
connection to the death.

Perry had died of a ketamine overdose, with a level in his system high
enough for general anaethesia during surgery. He was being treated by a
psychiatrist and an anaesthesiologist; the latter was his primary care
physician. He was on ketamine infusion therapy but his last treatment
was a week and a half earlier.

If he didn't get the ketamine from the anaethesiologist, then he got it
from somebody else and deliberately chose to abuse it. That he'd been on
the treatment for some time strongly suggests that he would have been
aware of how much was safe. It's not possible to safely self-administer
that extremely high dose that he took.

The finding of death was still accidental, but given that he took the
overdose himself and knew how excessively high the dose was, it should
have been ruled a suicide.

At least 1 arrest made in connection to Matthew Perry's death, law
enforcement source says
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and ANDREW DALTON
AP
Updated 9:36 AM CDT, August 15, 2024
https://apnews.com/article/matthew-perry-death-arrest-b3708a3818f1c649f234f83a6cd16e30