Several people could be charged in connection with the death of actor Matthew Perry, best known for his role as Chandler in the cult series "Friends", according to US media citing police sources.
According to "People" magazine, the investigation into the death of Perry, who died last year as a result of ketamine, is coming to an end, and the result could be indictment against more people, but the final decision will be made by the state prosecutor.
Almost seven months after his death, a federal and local investigation was launched in March of this year to find out who supplied Perry with the ketamine that caused his death.
Perry, who died at the age of 54, was found dead on October 28 last year in his home in a bathtub, and toxicology results showed that he had overdosed on ketamine, causing him to drown while unconscious.
According to sources who were close to him, the actor was undergoing therapy, as part of which he received ketamine through an infusion, with the help of which he fought against depression and anxiety.
What is problematic in the whole case is that he had the last therapy ten days before his death, and the doctors pointed out that he could not have died from it because "the effect lasts three to four hours, and sometimes less."
The autopsy results, which have been available to the public since December, show that Perry had an amount of ketamine in his blood, which is used as a general anesthetic during operations, and that was listed as the cause of death.
The police are now investigating who could have allowed Perry to consume ketamine outside of prescribed medical treatments, and the possibility that the substance was delivered to him by mail is also being considered.
Perry has had addiction problems throughout his life that began after his skiing injury in 1997, when he became addicted to the painkiller Vicodin.
As he himself wrote in his memoirs "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing", he spent about nine million dollars on treatment, which included six thousand meetings with Alcoholics Anonymous and 15 trips to rehabilitation.
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