• "Friends" actor Matthew Perry died from "acute effects of ketamine," a coroner ruled in 2023. • Perry wrote in his 2022 memoir of his experiences with ketamine and how it made him "dissociate." • The doctor who prescribed Perry the drug was found guilty in July of ketamine distribution.

A physician, who was found guilty of prescribing Matthew Perry ketamine in the month leading up to the "Friends" actor's death in October 2023, was sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison.

Salvador Plasencia, 44, was a physician who ran a clinic in Calabasas, California, when he was introduced to Perry on September 30, 2023, by one of his patients, according to a press release from the US Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.

Plasencia, also known as Dr. P, pleaded guilty to four count

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