Matthew Perry poses for a portrait in 2015, in New York. An post-mortem discovered that the 54-year-old actor died from the results of ketamine.

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Matthew Perry poses for a portrait in 2015, in New York. An post-mortem discovered that the 54-year-old actor died from the results of ketamine.

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Matthew Perry died from the “acute effects of ketamine,” in line with an post-mortem report launched by the Los Angeles County health worker greater than a month after the Friends actor died.

The 54-year-old was found unresponsive after he drowned in his pool at his Los Angeles dwelling on October 28, the examiner said on Friday.

His drowning, coronary artery illness and the results of buprenorphine — a drugs used to treat opioid use disorder — had been famous as components that contributed to his loss of life, however weren’t the first trigger, in line with the post-mortem outcomes. The loss of life was dominated an accident.

Perry had a historical past of drug habit, a battle he detailed in his memoir revealed final 12 months. The report famous his previous drug use however provides that he was “reportedly clean for 19 months.”

The report says he had been receiving ketamine infusion remedy for melancholy and nervousness, along with his most up-to-date infusion having occurred 1 1/2 weeks earlier than his loss of life.

But the ketamine that was in his system on the time of his loss of life “could not be from that infusion therapy, since ketamine’s half-life is 3-4 hours, or less,” the examiner mentioned.