Overview

• Dr. Salvador Plasencia admitted in federal court to four counts of distributing ketamine to Matthew Perry during the month before the actor’s October 2023 death.
• In exchange for his plea, prosecutors dropped three additional ketamine distribution counts and two falsifying-records charges against Plasencia.
• Plasencia faces a maximum of 40 years in prison and is set to be sentenced on December 3, 2025, after agreeing to surrender his medical license within the next 45 days.
• Jasveen Sangha, dubbed the “Ketamine Queen,” remains the sole defendant slated for trial in August on allegations of supplying the fatal dose to Perry.
• The case has prompted renewed calls for stricter federal oversight of off-label and at-home ketamine treatments for depression.