 States are responsible for nearly 50,000 children in those facilities. Eight months after actor Matthew Perry died from the acute effects of ketamine, police believe that multiple people should be charged in his death, according to People Magazine. It'll be the U.S. Attorney's Office's call whether or not to press charges. The Friends star died October 28th in an apparent drowning in a hot tub at his home in Los Angeles. Perry had been undergoing ketamine infusion therapy at the time of his death for depression.