Dec. 3 (UPI) — A doctor who pleaded guilty earlier this year to providing ketamine to the late Friends star Matthew Perry is set to be sentenced Wednesday in a Los Angeles court.

Dr. Salvador Plasencia is one of five people convicted in connection with Perry’s 2023 death from an overdose of ketamine. The 54-year-old actor was found unresponsive in a hot tub at his home in Pacific Palisades and was unable to be revived.

An autopsy showed Perry died of an overdose of ketamine, which he originally began taking to treat his depression and anxiety. His use of the drug, however, increased to the point that he was injecting it six to eight times per day in the weeks leading up to his death.

Plasencia, who pleaded guilty to four counts of distribution of ketamine in June, is the first of five p

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