GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - A company has responded to a lawsuit filed by the father of a man who claims a ketamine program killed his son.

John Ward is suing Mindbloom, Inc, a Florida ketamine provider, as well as a physician and a physician’s assistant who treated his son, Phillip Ward.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Pitt County, says the 27-year-old Ward died on October 29, 2023, of “ketamine toxicity in the presence of hypertension.”

Ketamine is used to treat depression and anxiety. The same month that Ward died, so did “Friends” actor Matthew Perry, from what has been called an out-of-control ketamine addiction, according to prosecutors who charged five people for his death.

Mindbloom founder and CEO Dylan Beynon gave a statement to WITN Thursday night:

“The Mindbloom team and I wer

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