What to know about ketamine therapy after Matthew Perry's cause of death announced

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Ketamine is a "dissociative anesthetic that has some hallucinogenic effects," per the US Drug Enforcement Administration.

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The autopsy states that Perry — who was "reportedly clean for 19 months" — was on ketamine infusion therapy, with his latest treatment taking place just "one and a half weeks before" his death.