"Friends" Star Matthew Perry "drowns" in hot tub 54 yrs old/RIP

[gunsmith]

  I can't recall the name of his character, I saw the show a bunch of times - but I really didn't like it .
 Apparently, he drowned in his own hot tub.
Drugs and alcohol do not mix, I hope he rest in peace... 54 yrs old is to young
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-28/freinds-star-matthew-perry-dead-at-56

[230RN]

RIP

Never watched it beyond the catchy theme.

https://youtu.be/sLisEEwYZvw

Sorry to hear about anyone's passing.

Gunsmith's link above has a pay request.  Wiki just says he died in his hot tub, with a big disclaimer about possible further details.  Hope he wasn't dead in the hot tub long... I'm thinking of the poor person who discovered him.

[K Frame]

Report says no drugs were found at the scene, but that doesn't mean anything.

Could also simply have been the effects of alcohol and the hot water. Back in the 1980s an Army general and his wife both drowned in their hot tub. They were both pretty intoxicated on wine, IIRC.

He was, though, a pretty heavy opiate abuser in years past. Read an article last night that said he had almost died from a ruptured bowl caused by opiate abuse.

[WLJ]

Report says no drugs were found at the scene, but that doesn't mean anything.

Could also simply have been the effects of alcohol and the hot water. Back in the 1980s an Army general and his wife both drowned in their hot tub. They were both pretty intoxicated on wine, IIRC.

He was, though, a pretty heavy opiate abuser in years past. Read an article last night that said he had almost died from a ruptured bowl caused by opiate abuse.

No drugs have ever been found at Hunter's place too

[Ron]

Sometimes you mess around and find out.

RIP

[MillCreek]

Could he be any more dead?

If you watched Friends, you will get the reference.

[230RN]

So what's the reference, having not watched it myself ?

[MechAg94]

I heard someone speculating about a heart attack as well but that may have just been vaccine speculation. 

[WLJ]

Report says no drugs were found at the scene, but that doesn't mean anything.

Could also simply have been the effects of alcohol and the hot water. Back in the 1980s an Army general and his wife both drowned in their hot tub. They were both pretty intoxicated on wine, IIRC.

He was, though, a pretty heavy opiate abuser in years past. Read an article last night that said he had almost died from a ruptured bowl caused by opiate abuse.

They've changed the wording to "no illegal drugs found at the scene"
Several prescription drugs were reportedly found

The star had prescription drugs including anti-depressants and anti-anxiety pills at his home at the time of his death - but no illegal medications, a police source claims.

The law enforcement mole told TMZ that the Friends star was also in possession of a prescription COPD drug.

COPD stands for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, with the meds found at Perry's home usually used for people with emphysema or chronic bronchitis.

Perry was a smoker and had also battled an addiction to alcohol as well as opiates, but claimed to have been clean shortly before his suspected drowning death.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12688951/Matthew-Perry-anxiety-2021-admission-felt-like-gonna-die-Friends-live-audience-didnt-laugh-trends-death-54-anti-anxiety-pills-home.html?ico=topics_pagination_desktop

[WLJ]

High levels of ketamine reportedly found in his system.

Perry's autopsy revealed he died from the 'acute effects of ketamine' and drowning - with the actor having similar quantities of ketamine in his system as a hospital patient under general anesthetic.

'The County of Los Angeles Department of Medical Examiner determined the cause of death for 54-year-old actor Matthew Langford Perry as the acute effects of ketamine,' the Los Angeles coroner's office said on Friday.

 Matthew Perry wrote about ketamine infusion therapy in his memoir and said it was 'not for me' and made him think he was 'dying'... as late Friends actor's autopsy reveals 'high levels' of drug in his system
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12870937/Matthew-Perry-ketamine-infusion-therapy-think-dying-memoir-autopsy-high-levels-drug-system.html

[WLJ]

What is ketamine, the drug tied to actor Matthew Perry's death?
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/15/1219761972/what-is-ketamine-friends-matthew-perry

The use of the drug ketamine has evolved since its development in the 1960s as a human and animal anesthetic. Today, it's known both as a promising new treatment for severe depression and as a psychedelic party drug.

Perry himself was using ketamine infusion therapy for depression and anxiety, with the most recent infusion provided a week and a half before his death, his autopsy report said. But the ketamine used for that therapy was unlikely the cause of Perry's death as the half-life of the drug in the system is around three to four hours or less, the report said.

It's unclear still how or when Perry received more ketamine in the hours before he died.

[BobR]

What is ketamine, the drug tied to actor Matthew Perry's death?
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/15/1219761972/what-is-ketamine-friends-matthew-perry

Ketamine has been and is a drug with potential for abuse. There is a reason a lot of Veterinarian offices removed it from their inventory, they were tired of break-ins  so people could obtain it.

We would use it on occasion to sedate kids depending on the procedure. None died but some of them were pretty agitated when coming out of the K-hole.

In the end he was an addict and died from his addictions.

This is a lot like Michael Jackson and his propofol use which led to his death. When you start using things off label or just plain abusing them you run the chance of something happening you didn't plan for.

bob

[cordex]

Ketamine was what my daughter was given when the doc was reducing her fractured arm.

I was under the impression that it wasn’t a particularly “fun” or euphoric drug.

[230RN]

I get high aplenty just seeing fall colors and spring flowers every year.

[gunsmith]

I get high aplenty just seeing fall colors and spring flowers every year.

 "I used to get high on life, but I built up a tolerance"
Me in the early 90's before getting sober.

[Pb]

I was given a drug of some sort prior to minor surgery when I was a child.  Whatever it was, it made me hallucinate (that the actress Anne Ramsey from the Goonies was in my kitchen, in case you were wondering).

I've often wondered if it was ketamine.