LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Mark Chavez, the second of two doctors convicted in “Friends” star Matthew Perry’s death from a ketamine overdose, was sentenced Tuesday in downtown Los Angeles to eight months of home confinement and ordered to perform 300 hours of community service for illegally supplying the anesthetic drug.
Chavez, 55, of San Diego, pleaded guilty in October 2024 to one federal count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine. He subsequently surrendered his medical license. Chavez operated a San Diego-area ketamine infusion clinic at the time of Perry’s death in 2023.
Chavez admitted that he and a second then-doctor, Salvador Plasencia, began supplying ketamine to Perry beginning around September 2023. The general anesthetic is used as a therapy for depression, but is also abused as a so- called party drug that can cause visual and auditory distortions…