Matthew Perry's doctors lose their license in ketamine case

Matthew PerryDoctors I am no longer allowed to prescribe medication.

Salvador Plasencia And Mark Chavez– two of the five defendants in connection with the Friends graduates—have surrendered their prescription licensing, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) confirmed to E! News on August 19.

E! News reached out to attorneys for Chavez and Plasencia for comment but did not receive a response.

Perry was found dead in the hot tub of his California home on October 28. In December, the Los Angeles Medical Examiner ruled the actor's death a drug-related accident and drowning – the result of the “acute effects of ketamine.”

In a press conference on August 15, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Plasencia and Chavez are among five defendants who “profited” from Perry's long-term battle with drug addiction and are also charged with their alleged involvement in his death.

The prosecution also named Plasencia as one of the main defendants and claimed that the doctor had Fools storm in Assistant to the star Kenneth Iwamasa to distribute approximately 20 vials of ketamine to him between September and October 2023 in exchange for $55,000 in cash. (Iwamasa pleaded guilty on August 7 to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine resulting in death.)