{"id":471764,"date":"2025-06-17T10:18:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T14:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/doctor-pleads-guilty-to-illegally-providing-ketamine-to-matthew-perry\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T10:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T14:18:50","slug":"doctor-pleads-guilty-to-illegally-providing-ketamine-to-matthew-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/entertainment\/doctor-pleads-guilty-to-illegally-providing-ketamine-to-matthew-perry\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor pleads guilty to illegally providing ketamine to Matthew Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>LOS ANGELES<\/strong> \u2014 A Southern California doctor accused of illegally providing ketamine to actor <strong>Matthew Perry<\/strong> in the weeks leading up to his death has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges, according to court documents filed Monday.\n\nThe doctor, <strong>Salvador Plasencia<\/strong>, 43, operator of an urgent care clinic in <strong>Calabasas<\/strong>, admitted to having provided the actor with multiple doses of ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic with psychedelic properties, without valid medical justification. The supply occurred between September and October 2023, both at Perry&#8217;s residence and in a nearby parking lot, according to the federal indictment.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/entretenimiento\/murio-matthew-perry-actor-de-chandler-en-friends\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"262593\">Matthew Perry, Chandler&#8217;s actor in \u201cFriends\u201d, died<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nPlasencia faces <strong>up to 40 years in prison<\/strong> and <strong>a $2 million fine<\/strong> for <strong>four counts of illegal distribution of ketamine<\/strong>. With this agreement, he becomes the fourth person to plead guilty in connection with the death of the actor from <em>Friends<\/em>, who died on October 28, 2023, at the age of 54.\n\nThe <strong>Los Angeles County coroner&#8217;s office<\/strong> determined that Perry died from the <strong>\u201cacute effects\u201d<\/strong> of ketamine. The autopsy also cited drowning, a pre-existing coronary disease, and the presence of <strong>buprenorphine<\/strong>, an opioid used in addiction treatments, as contributing factors.\n\nAccording to federal prosecutors, Plasencia gave Perry <strong>20 vials of ketamine<\/strong>, a partially used package of ketamine pills, and <strong>syringes<\/strong>. Authorities indicate that there was no documented therapeutic context for these administrations.\n\nThe <strong>ketamine<\/strong>, legally approved as an anesthetic and used in controlled environments to treat disorders such as severe depression and PTSD, has also become popular in unauthorized uses, including recreational consumption, which has raised concerns among public health experts.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 A Southern California doctor accused of illegally providing ketamine to actor Matthew Perry in the weeks leading up to his death has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges, according to court documents filed Monday. The doctor, Salvador Plasencia, 43, operator of an urgent care clinic in Calabasas, admitted to having provided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":471765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-471764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/DENUNCIA-TU-PROBLEMATICA-2025-06-17T071726.340.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1YJ6","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Entertainment"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/DENUNCIA-TU-PROBLEMATICA-2025-06-17T071726.340.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}