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Doctor convicted — and sentenced, in Matthew Perry’s death
On 3 December 2025, 44-year-old Dr. Salvador Plasencia was sentenced to 30 months (2.5 years) in federal prison after pleading guilty to illegally supplying the powerful anesthetic Ketamine to Matthew Perry in the weeks before the actor’s death.
Plasencia also surrendered his medical license in September 2025 as part of the consequences of the case.
What led to the charges
• According to prosecutors, Perry — who had long battled depression and addiction — had initially been receiving ketamine legally from a regular doctor as an off-label treatment for depression.
• When that doctor refused to increase the dosage, Perry reportedly turned to other sources. Around a month before his death, Plasencia started supplying him ketamine illegally: 20 vials (totaling about 100 mg), along with lozenges and syringes.
• Plasencia even brought in another doctor, Dr. Mark Chavez, to supply additional ketamine, and allegedly coordinated the supply.
• Court filings revealed that Plasencia disparaged Perry in messages, calling him a “moron” and referring to exploiting him for profit.
Although Plasencia did not directly administer the fatal dose, the judge concluded that by continuing to feed Perry’s ketamine addiction, he substantially contributed to the events leading to Perry’s death.
The fatal overdose and aftermath
Perry was found unresponsive in a jacuzzi at his Los Angeles home on 28 October 2023. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner determined his death was primarily caused by the “acute effects of ketamine,” with contributing factors including drowning, coronary artery disease, and the effects of another drug, Buprenorphine.
After the investigation, five individuals were charged in total — including two doctors, a dealer, and the actor’s assistant. Plasencia was the first to be sentenced.
The others, including a woman described as the “Jasveen Sangha” — reportedly the dealer who provided the lethal dose — have also pled guilty (in her case, “distribution resulting in death or serious bodily injury”) and face sentencing in the coming months.
Legal and moral implications
At sentencing, the judge condemned Plasencia’s behavior as exploitative: he did not simply err — he knowingly took advantage of a vulnerable person struggling with addiction, for profit. “You exploited Mr. Perry’s addiction for your own profit,” the court declared.
Perry’s family — including his mother and stepsiblings — gave emotional victim-impact statements expressing grief and anger at the betrayal by someone who should have helped, not harmed, him.
The case has sparked wider concern over the growing risks of underground or loosely regulated ketamine use, especially when medical professionals abuse their license. Several outlets and prosecutors have called for stricter oversight and clearer protocols for ketamine therapy.
What this means going forward
This sentencing — and the guilty pleas by multiple defendants — mark a significant development in the attempt to bring accountability for the fatal overdose of a major public figure. The case underscores:
• That licensed medical professionals can be held criminally responsible when they cross the line from treatment into illicit drug distribution.
• The danger for patients who, in the grip of addiction or mental-health struggles, are vulnerable to exploitation.
• The need for better regulation, oversight, and ethical safeguards around treatments like ketamine therapy, to prevent “doctors becoming dealers.”
As the remaining defendants await sentencing, many hope this tragic case serves as a deterrent and a wake-up call for both the medical community and regulatory agencies.
Attached is a news article regarding the doctor who killed Matthew Perry
https://www.itv.com/news/2025-12-03/doctor-who-sold-ketamine-to-friends-star-matthew-perry-jailed
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