Matthew Perry death: Doctor pleads guilty in actor's ketamine overdose

Can he BE any more guilty?
- Damn you for making me chuckle in this context.

I want to see what happens to his personal assistant. Employer employee relationships have a certain power dynamic and when the employer is paying the employee and tells them to get him drugs (I think this is what happened? IDK) how much blame can you put on the person?

Lost to the K-hole.

I hate this obsessive puritanical attempt to control what we do with our bodies to the point that there’s an entire rent-seeking middleman prescription racket. If it didn’t already exist, it would be comical. But anything to extract wealth from the masses, right? “War on drugs” proponents are the worst among us.
EDIT: ketamine is used to treat PTSD. Yes, you can overdose. But if you think you’re entitled to prevent someone from ingesting medicine until they beg a corporate bureaucrat for permission, then your ethical compass is so fucked you’re probably the sort of person who would have supported slavery a few hundred years ago.
- Ketamine is commonly used as a date rape drug. I really don't think it's a 'war on drugs' issue in this particular case.
  http://www.peru.edu/titleix/drugs.html
  Also, prescription medication predates the drug war by a very long time. If nothing else, it helps mitigate parents doing things to their kids that could kill them when the parent is trying to cure them.
  
  You know what's the most common daterape drug?
  Alcohol.
  You know how many stabbings there are every year? And everyone is still allowed kitchen knives.
  Ketamine is no different. Most recreational users are responsible. You just don't see or hear from them, because of the social implications of admitting to using illegal drugs.
  The reason Perry died is that he did a strong dissociative, while immersed in water. He must've been drunk as a skunk, because any experiences drug user (which I'm sure he was**) should know not to shoot up in a tub of any sort.
  A lethal dose of ketamine would be roughly 25-times what a normal recreational dose is, so its doubtful he actually died from the ketamine.
  Which leads me back to my point that he was drunk and did something slightly stupid with horrendous consequence.
  When people die in housefires after they've passed out on their bed with a lit ciggie, you don't blame the kiosk that sold them the pack of smokes, do you?
  Regulation is good. We should have much more of it. Unfortunately, the only way to have that regulation is to admit that people can and do use these substances recreationally. Alcohol is a every dangerously substance, but banning it lead to an absolute clusterfuck and because people will keep drinking, it's better to have legal markets and legal use so it can be controlled to at least some extent, curtailing the worst abuse and encouraging moderate use.
  Like during the prohibition of alcohol, it would've been way more likely you literally drink yourself to death. Either because you get methanol or some other adulterant, or because you get every strong ethanol (booze) without knowing how strong it is, and because there's little to no social control because abusers are just as criminal as the moderate users so moderate users can't "tell" on abusers.
  Even if alcohol doesn't need a prescription, it's still regulated; you have to be an adult and you can't be too drunk to buy it. And all products you can buy from stores are labeled with the strength they are, and there are actually mild option, like beer.
  You know how the temperance movement has the word "temperance" in it? It's because it was supposed to be about tempering the abuse to moderation. But then they starred advocating for full prohibition.
  It is a war on drugs issue in this death. Very much so.
  
  Ketamine is commonly used to treat PTSD. But sure, since some people will use it for criminal purposes we all get fucked, right?
  
  Ok. Fine, keep your controleds.
  Could I just pass a test to get my own antibiotics, steroids, and asthma inhaler without paying a few hundred bucks to a gatekeeper each time I get a sinus infection?
- The delicious irony being it is people with this mentality that the prescription system is most needed for.
  
  Imagine a bureaucracy of dunces that gets to tell you what plants you’re allowed to ingest. We live in a clown world.
- “War on drugs” proponents are the worst among us.
  I genuinely couldn't agree more. Rare to see this.
  And the insipid part is that they don't realise just how much its fucking cover society. Pretty much all organises crime is funded through drugs. Cartels just wouldn't have income without them. If there we're legal networks, everything would be safer and there would be a metric fuckton less crime. Just think of all the gang crime in the US. What is it based around? Drugs, ofc.
  Not to even mention the benefits to society when it become socially acceptable to do serotonergic substances instead of drowning in solvents every weekend.
  
  Yep. We have to wait for these boomer-brain uneducated morons to die out so we can make progress in society.