The 'Ketamine Queen' and the Death of Her Famous Friend

When an actor loved around the world slipped beneath the water, he left behind a crime scene dominated by addiction and the money-mad individuals who fuelled it. h

By the autumn evening Matthew Perry died, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office had already begun to see an unsettling pattern emerging across ketamine-related deaths in Southern California. These cases rarely made headlines, but they appeared often enough to draw interest from narcotics detectives and federal diversion investigators. Ketamin…