Matthew Perry's Ex-Physician Sentenced to 2 1/2 Years in Prison
NEWS | 04 December 2025
Salvador Plasencia, a former physician, was found guilty of illegally prescribing actor Matthew Perry ketamine. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images Salvador Plasencia, a former physician, was found guilty of illegally prescribing actor Matthew Perry ketamine. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. A physician, who was found guilty of prescribing Matthew Perry ketamine in the month leading up to the "Friends" actor's death in October 2023, was sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison. Salvador Plasencia, 44, was a physician who ran a clinic in Calabasas, California, when he was introduced to Perry on September 30, 2023, by one of his patients, according to a press release from the US Attorney's Office for the Central District of California. Plasencia, also known as Dr. P, pleaded guilty to four counts of ketamine distribution in July. As part of his plea agreement, he surrendered his medical license. He is the first of five defendants to be sentenced. In the weeks since their first meeting, Plasencia gave Perry and the actor's assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, "20 vials and multiple tablets of ketamine and syringes." Perry, who had documented his personal struggle with drug addiction in his 2022 memoir "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing," died on October 28, 2023. His death was caused by the "acute effects of ketamine," a coroner ruled. Perry was 54.
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