The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office just released the toxicology report, concluding Perry had taken ketamine infusion therapy for depression and anxiety a week-and-a-half before his death.

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office just released the toxicology report, concluding Perry had taken ketamine infusion therapy for depression and anxiety a week-and-a-half before his death.

  • ADHDefy@kbin.social
    1·
    7 months ago

    This report doesn’t really make sense to me.

    • He died from acute effects of ketamine infusion therapy that he had a week and a half before, but ketamine’s half-life in the system is just 3-4 hours and could not have still been in his system a week and a half later. Yet he had ketamine in his system, not from his last prescribed administration, but it was also deemed that he had not been using illicit substances. How did the ketamine get in his system then?

    • He had been clean for 19 months, but he was still taking Buprenorphine to ween off opiods. Are you normally weening off for that long?

    • “The contributory factors in Perry’s death included drowning, coronary artery disease, and buprenorphine effects.” None of those are “acute effects of ketamine.” Also, wouldn’t the drowning be the leading cause? Like it sounds like something caused him to lose consciousness and then he drowned.

    Is this article really badly written, or am I just dumb? 0.o

    • WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social
      4·
      7 months ago

      It’s TMZ, of course it’s shit writing.

      From the NYT article on this

      “At the high levels of ketamine found in his postmortem blood specimens, the main lethal effects would be from both cardiovascular overstimulation and respiratory depression,” the autopsy report said. It noted that the level of ketamine investigators found in Perry’s blood was equivalent to the amount that would be used during general anesthesia.

      also

      Toxicology tests also detected “therapeutic” levels of buprenorphine, a drug that medical examiners said was used to treat drug addiction and for pain; Perry’s live-in assistant said in a witness statement that he was seeing a psychiatrist and taking buprenorphine twice a day as prescribed. Investigators also found evidence of sedatives but found no evidence of alcohol, methamphetamine or cocaine.

      https://web.archive.org/web/20231216075716/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/arts/matthew-perry-cause-death-friends.html