LOS ANGELES, California — A doctor who admitted repeatedly supplying ketamine to “Friends” actor Matthew Perry in the weeks before the actor’s death was sentenced Wednesday to two-and-a-half years in federal prison, after a judge found he knowingly contributed to Perry’s escalating dependence on the drug even if he didn’t provide the dose that killed him, the Associated Press reported .

U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett also ordered two years of probation for 44-year-old Dr. Salvador Plasencia. In court, she acknowledged that Plasencia was not the source of the fatal ketamine detected in Perry’s system but told him, “You and others helped Mr. Perry on the road to such an ending by continuing to feed his ketamine addiction,” according to AP.

Plasencia, who pleaded guilty in Jul

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