Let's not learn the wrong lessons from Matthew Perry's ketamine tragedy

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Let's not learn the wrong lessons from Matthew Perry's ketamine tragedy
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Exploiting a person's mental illness or addiction for monetary gain is vile. Limiting access to a therapeutic medication, in response, would be foolish.

It’s impossible to say with confidence that Matthew Perry would be alive today had he not gotten into his hot tub on Oct. 28 last year. But it’s hard not to wonder. The medical examiner’s report named “acute effects of ketamine” as the cause of Perry’s death, with contributing factors including coronary artery disease, an opioid known as buprenorphine — and drowning. The actor’s body was found face down in the water.

Cannabis prohibition exacerbated racial discrimination in law enforcement and prosecution, and it corrupted the criminal justice system by allowing police departments to keep cash and other property allegedly involved in drug crimes. The opioid crisis turned pharmaceutical companies into pushers and physicians into dealers, and sapped the spirit of hundreds of cities ravaged by addiction and already struggling with a changing economy.

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