Updated On: 17 December, 2023 05:12 PM IST | Los Angeles | IANS
Actor Matthew Perry was taking lethal amounts of ketamine mixed with the opioid-like drug buprenorphine, which is used to alleviate pain and help with addiction to opioids. He had also been taking Tammoxifen to lose weight, antidiabetic medication and nicotine lollipops

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`Friends` star Matthew Perry passed away on October 28 at the age of 54. He was found dead in the hot tub at his home. Late actor’s female friend said that he was “angry and mean” in the weeks before his death because he had been taking testosterone shots. Perry’s autopsy report revealed a grimmer look at the star’s final days. It noted that aside from a lethal amount of ketamine mixed with the opioid-like drug buprenorphine, which is used to alleviate pain and help with addiction to opioids, he had been taking Tammoxifen to lose weight, antidiabetic medication and nicotine lollipops, reports pagesix.com.
Before his death, he was trying to quit smoking. His live-in assistant said he had been smoking about two packs of cigarettes per day. The medical examiner’s report further exemplified how heavily Perry relied on prescribed and over-the-counter medication to maintain his quality of life. “In the assistant’s bedroom, there were multiple open, empty, half-filled medication bottles prescribed to the decedent, as well as over-the-counter medications, vitamins, digestive aids and dishes filled with multiple various loose pills, tablets, caplets, candy and breath mints,” the report read.