{"id":11524,"date":"2024-08-19T22:01:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T22:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11524"},"modified":"2024-08-19T22:26:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T22:26:57","slug":"matthew-perrys-death-shines-a-harsh-light-on-ketamine-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11524","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Perry\u2019s Death Shines a Harsh Light on Ketamine Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Was Mr. Perry, whose struggles with substance abuse were widely known, a good candidate for a drug used to relieve depression? Doctors say his case raises thorny questions.<\/p>\n

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The actor Matthew Perry, who had long struggled with addiction, grew intrigued by ketamine a few years ago during a stay at a rehab facility in Switzerland where he received daily infusions of the powerful anesthetic \u201cto ease pain and help with depression.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHas my name written all over it \u2014 they might as well have called it \u2018Matty,\u2019\u201d he later wrote of ketamine, which is known for its dissociative properties, in his 2022 memoir, \u201cFriends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing<\/a>.\u201d It felt, he said, \u201clike a giant exhale.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the music played and the K ran through me, it all became about the ego, and the death of the ego,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAnd I often thought that I was dying during that hour. Oh, <\/em>I thought, this is what happens when you die.\u201d <\/em>As much as he was drawn to it, he wrote, he found the hangover unpleasant and ultimately decided that \u201cketamine was not for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

But he eventually returned to the drug, getting ketamine treatments from doctors at clinics and then, as he grew addicted to it, buying it from illicit sources and getting multiple injections each day<\/a> at his Los Angeles home, the authorities have said. On Oct. 28, after he received several shots from his personal assistant, he did die<\/a> \u2014 face down in his hot tub. An autopsy determined that Mr. Perry had died from \u201cthe acute effects of ketamine,\u201d<\/a> with drowning one of several contributing factors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201c<\/strong>Matthew Perry sought treatment for depression and anxiety and went to a local clinic where he became addicted to intravenous ketamine,\u201d Anne Milgram, the head of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, said at a news conference last week. \u201cWhen clinic doctors refused to increase his dosage, he turned to unscrupulous doctors who saw Perry as a way to make quick money.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Drugs and paraphernalia connected to a person accused of distributing ketamine to Mr. Perry. While ketamine poses a lower addiction risk than opioids, it can produce an out-of-body experience that some people enjoy.<\/span>U.S. District Court Central District, via Agence France-Presse<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Was Mr. Perry, whose struggles with substance abuse were widely known, a good candidate for a drug used to relieve depression? Doctors say his case raises thorny questions.The actor Matthew Perry, who had long struggled with addiction, grew intrigued by ketamine a few years ago during a stay at a rehab facility in Switzerland where he received daily infusions of the powerful anesthetic \u201cto ease pain and help with depression.\u201d\u201cHas my name written all over it \u2014 they might as well have called it \u2018Matty,\u2019\u201d he later wrote of ketamine, which is known for its dissociative properties, in his 2022 memoir, \u201cFriends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.\u201d It felt, he said, \u201clike a giant exhale.\u201d\u201cAs the music played and the K ran through me, it all became about the ego, and the death of the ego,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAnd I often thought that I was dying during that hour. Oh, I thought, this is what happens when you die.\u201d As much as he was drawn to it, he wrote, he found the hangover unpleasant and ultimately decided that \u201cketamine was not for me.\u201dBut he eventually returned to the drug, getting ketamine treatments from doctors at clinics and then, as he grew addicted to it, buying it from illicit sources and getting multiple injections each day at his Los Angeles home, the authorities have said. On Oct. 28, after he received several shots from his personal assistant, he did die \u2014 face down in his hot tub. An autopsy determined that Mr. Perry had died from \u201cthe acute effects of ketamine,\u201d with drowning one of several contributing factors.\u201cMatthew Perry sought treatment for depression and anxiety and went to a local clinic where he became addicted to intravenous ketamine,\u201d Anne Milgram, the head of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, said at a news conference last week. \u201cWhen clinic doctors refused to increase his dosage, he turned to unscrupulous doctors who saw Perry as a way to make quick money.\u201dDrugs and paraphernalia connected to a person accused of distributing ketamine to Mr. Perry. While ketamine poses a lower addiction risk than opioids, it can produce an out-of-body experience that some people enjoy.U.S. District Court Central District, via Agence France-PresseWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11526,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11527,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524\/revisions\/11527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}