Fallout: New Vegas star Matthew Perry passes on

[Rand]

Thanks for bumping this thread with timely covid autism

And who the **** forced you to read it?

[Vergil]

Thanks for bumping this thread with timely covid autism

And who the **** forced you to read it?

Your mom after I finished making it cream ***** **** you.

[Rand]

Thanks for bumping this thread with timely covid autism

And who the **** forced you to read it?

Your mom after I finished making it cream ***** **** you.

Then you had sex with a skeleton as she died over 30 years ago.
But it's what I'd expect, tbh.

[Rand]

Bumping to annoy people...

[WhiteShark]

RIP Matthew Perry.

[Rand]

News story (Associated Press):

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Five people including his personal assistant and two doctors have been charged
in connection with Matthew Perry’s death in what prosecutors called a “broad
underground criminal network” dedicated to getting the “Friends” star the
powerful surgical anesthetic that killed him.

The doctors preyed on Perry’s history of addiction in the final months of his
life last year to provide him with ketamine in amounts they knew were dangerous,
U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said as he announced the charges Thursday.

“They knew what they were doing was wrong,” Estrada said. “They knew what they
were doing was risking great danger to Mr. Perry. But they did it anyway.”

One doctor even wrote in a text message, “I wonder how much this moron will pay”
and “Lets find out,” according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.

Perry died in October due to a ketamine overdose and prosecutors said he
received several injections on the day he died from his live-in personal
assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, who found Perry dead later that day and was the first
to talk to investigators.

Ketamine has seen a huge surge in use in recent years as a treatment for
depression, anxiety and pain. While the drug isn’t approved for those
conditions, doctors are free to prescribe drugs for so-called off-label uses.

Perry had been receiving regular ketamine infusion treatments for depression —
in amounts not nearly enough to account for his death — from his regular
doctors, who were not among those charged, authorities said.

When those doctors refused to give him more, he went in desperation to others.

“We are not talking about legitimate ketamine treatment,” Estrada said. “We’re
talking about two doctors who abused the trust they had, abused their licenses
to put another person’s life at risk.”

DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said in one instance the actor paid $2,000 for a
vial of ketamine that cost one of the physicians about $12. Perry paid the
doctors about $55,000 in cash in the two months before his death, Estrada said.

Two of the people, including one of the doctors charged, were arrested Thursday,
Estrada said. Two of the defendants, including Iwamasa, have pleaded guilty to
charges already, and a third person has agreed to plead guilty.

Among those arrested Thursday are Dr. Salvador Plasencia, who is charged with
seven counts of distribution of ketamine and also two charges related to
allegations he falsified records after Perry’s death.

Plasencia appeared in court briefly Thursday afternoon and pleaded not guilty.
He can be released after posting a $100,000 bond.

Plasencia’s attorney Stefan Sacks asked that his client be allowed to keep
seeing patients at his practice when he’s released, saying he had already
turned over his DEA license to prescribe dangerous drugs and that the Perry
case was “isolated.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney Ian V. Yanniello objected, saying Plasencia had
“essentially acted as a street corner drug dealer.”

Magistrate Judge Alka Sagar ruled that Plasencia could treat patients only if
they sign a document saying they had been informed of the charges against him.

“Ultimately, Dr. Plasencia was operating with what he thought were the best of
medical intentions,” and his actions “certainly didn’t rise to the level of
criminal misconduct,” Sacks said outside the courthouse. “His only concern was
to give the best medical treatment and to do no harm,” Sacks said.
“Unfortunately harm was done. But it was after his involvement.”

The other person arraigned in the case Thursday was Jasveen Sangha, who
prosecutors described as a drug dealer known to customers as the “Ketamine
Queen” — a moniker her attorney derided as made-for-media consumption during
her court hearing. Ketamine supplied by Sangha caused Perry’s death,
authorities said.

Sangha pleaded not guilty and was denied bond. She had first been arrested in
the case, charged with possession of ketamine with intent to distribute and
released on bond in March, with authorities keeping Perry’s involvement quiet.
But a new indictment unsealed Thursday alleges a direct connection to the
actor’s death, and the judge ruled she should remain in custody due to her
concern over prosecutors’ contentions that she destroyed evidence and has used
money from drug sales to fund a lavish lifestyle.

Plasencia could get up to 120 years in prison if convicted, prosecutors said,
and Sangha could get life in prison.

Records show Plasencia’s medical license has been in good standing with no
records of complaints, though it is set to expire in October.

A San Diego physician, Dr. Mark Chavez, has agreed to plead guilty to
conspiracy to distribute ketamine. Prosecutors allege Chavez funneled ketamine
to Plasencia, securing some of the drug from a wholesale distributor through a
fraudulent prescription.

The prosecutor said the defendants exchanged messages soon after Perry’s death
referencing ketamine as the cause of death. Estrada said they deleted messages
and falsified medical records in an attempt to cover up their involvement.

Los Angeles police said in May that they were working with the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service with a probe
into why the 54-year-old had so much of the surgical anesthetic in his system.

Iwamasa found the actor face down in his hot tub on Oct. 28, and paramedics who
were called immediately declared him dead.

The assistant received the ketamine from Erik Fleming, who has pleaded guilty
to obtaining the drug from Sangha and delivering them to Iwamasa. In all, he
delivered 50 vials of ketamine for Perry’s use, including 25 handed over four
days before the actor’s death.

Perry’s autopsy, released in December, found that the amount of ketamine in his
blood was in the range used for general anesthesia during surgery.

But it had been 1 1/2 weeks since his previous legitimate treatment, the
medical examiner said, and the drug is typically metabolized in a matter of
hours.

Estrada said that Plasencia had witnessed Perry freeze up and saw his blood
pressure spike after injecting him with the drug, but still left several vials
with Iwamura for the actor to inject later.

Multiple requests for comment from lawyers for Chavez, Iwamasa and Fleming were
not returned Thursday.

The medical examiner listed ketamine as the primary cause of death, which was
ruled an accident with no foul play suspected, the report said. Drowning and
other medical issues were contributing factors, the coroner said.

Perry had years of struggles with addiction dating back to his time on
“Friends,” when he became one of the biggest television stars of his generation
as Chandler Bing alongside Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt
LeBlanc and David Schwimmer for 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004 on NBC’s megahit
sitcom.

Drug-related celebrity deaths have in other cases led authorities to prosecute
the people who supplied them.

After rapper Mac Miller died from an overdose of cocaine, alcohol and
counterfeit oxycodone that contained fentanyl, two of the men who provided him
the fentanyl were convicted of distributing the drug. One was sentenced to more
than 17 years in federal prison, the other to 10 years.

And after Michael Jackson died in 2009 from a lethal dose of propofol, a drug
intended for use only during surgery and other medical procedures, not for the
insomnia the singer sought it for, his doctor, Conrad Murray, was convicted of
involuntary manslaughter in 2011. Murray has maintained his innocence.

[rusty_shackleford]

Doctors who purposely cause harm to their patient should be executed, simple as.

[Vergil]

tl;dr shockingly the junkie died of junkie related causes not a little whoospie in the pool.

[The_Mask]

NEW: 'Ketamine Queen' sentenced to 15 years in prison in connection with the death of actor Matthew Perry.

42-year-old Jayvee Sangha, a dual U.S.-British citizen, admitted to running a "stash house" for illegal narcotics in North Hollywood.

Perry was discovered lying face down in a hot tub in his Los Angeles home on October 28, 2023. An autopsy report found that Perry died from the "acute effects of ketamine."

Sangha reportedly admitted to selling 51 vials ​of ketamine to a go-between dealer, Erik Fleming, who then sold them to ​Perry's personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa.

Iwamasa later injected Perry with at least three shots of ketamine.

Fleming, Iwamasa, as well as two medical doctors, were charged in the case.

Sangha received the harshest penalty, according to Reuters.

[Tangerine]

Jayvee Sangha

"British"

[Tweed]

Ketamine Queen, now we're sharing the same cell!