The death of Matthew Perry is a result of “the acute effects of ketamine”. What is this medication?
MATTHEW PERRY DEATH – The death of the “Friends” actor was due to “the acute effects of ketamine” and here are some details about this.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s office said on Friday that the cause of death of “Friends” actor Matthew Perry was due to “the acute effects of ketamine”. The actor who played Chandler Bing on the hit TV sitcom from 1994-2004 died at the age of 54.
Before he passed away, it was not a secret that he struggled with addiction and related serious health issues for a lot of years.
“The manner of death is accident,” the medical examiner said in a statement. It also stated that among the contributing factors that led to his untimely death were drowning, coronary artery disease, and the effects of buprenorphine, a medicine used to treat opioid use disorder.
About ketamine
Reportedly, he had received “ketamine infusion therapy for depression and anxiety”. This was categorized as “dissociative anesthetic”. It is known to treat and relieve severe depression in a matter of hours as shown by the National Institutes of Health.
Other depression medical remedies like Prozac and Zoloft take weeks to relieve the condition and do not work effectively for every patient.
In 2018, Dr. Martin Teicher considered the use of ketamine as “one of the biggest advances in psychiatry in a very long time”. Teicher is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program at McLean Hospital.
However, despite the quick fix the ketamine offers, the relief does not last long. Research has shown that it goes away after a few days or weeks. As for Perry, it has been reported that he had a ketamine infusion therapy for depression and anxiety a week and a half before he was found lifeless in a hot tub at his house in Los Angeles on October 28.
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