Doctor sentenced to prison for supplying actor Matthew Perry with ketamine before his death
NBC News·2025-12-03 23:55

A judge in California today sentencing a doctor who sold ketamine to friendst star Matthew Perry just weeks before his overdose to more than two years in prison. The doctor is Salvador Placencia. And here he is arriving in court in Los Angeles today. He's the first of five people to be sentenced in Perry's death, but he is not accused of selling the dose that killed the actor back in October of 2023. Perry was taking a surgical anesthetic ketamine legally as a treatment for depression. But when his regular ...