Matthew Perry's death highlights the role of 'unscrupulous doctors' in fuelling celebrity addiction
Actor Matthew Perry attends the 2003 TV Land awards at the Palladium Theatre in Hollywood on 2 March 2003.
"Instead of 'do no harm,' they did harm, so that they could make more money," Anne Milgram of the Drug Enforcement Administration told a press conference this week.The allegations against doctors Salvador Plasencia, who has pleaded not guilty, and Mark Chavez, who agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to distribute ketamine, appear eerily reminiscent of other celebrity cases.
But Nelson, who has been personally involved in more than a dozen"front-page, headline-news tragedies" involving famous actors, rock stars and athletes, said the full picture is often more complicated. In order to"stay in the good graces of that person and continue to have this privileged role," doctors can end up rationalising:"I'm gonna do what that person wants, even if it's against better judgment," said Nelson.Ketamine's use as a"party drug" due to its dissociative and hallucinatory effects exploded onto the scene in the 1990s.
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