Matthew Perry's Doctor DOES Prescribe At-Home Ketamine Microdoses
20.12.2023 - 20:07
/ perezhilton.com
Ever since Matthew Perry‘s cause of death was revealed, everyone’s been trying to wrap their heads around what happened.
For someone who had worked so hard to get sober, it was devastating to see an autopsy report list “the acute effects of ketamine” as the reason for his shocking passing. He’d reportedly been seeing a specialist where he was given the drug as treatment for anxiety and depression. Per TMZ, he’d been undergoing this treatment every other day for a long time — but was told he was ready to pull back about six months ago. His last transfusion was a week and a half before his death. Yet, authorities declared he had to have taken the drug the day he died.
So, obviously, questions were raised. And it quickly became more concerning when his ex-girlfriend called for an investigation into his doctors, who she alleged may have gotten him hooked on the drug. Super sad and scary, if true.
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So, who is his doctor? How did these treatments work? And how might he have taken the drug seemingly without a doctor’s supervision?
The Blast did some digging and discovered a lot of information on Tuesday. According to them, the Friends alum’s primary care doctor, Dr. Andre Atoian, who was listed in the autopsy, is an anesthesiologist and ketamine specialist. He’s also the founder and medical director of Ketamine Specialists (now called Limbic Medical), where he prescribes in-person AND at-home microdosing treatments to patients! They were just advertising the program last month — look:
If you don’t know, microdosing means taking a small amount of a drug to benefit from its “physiological action while minimizing undesirable side effects.” Andre’s practice is