Matthew Perry is slowly receiving justice.

Salvador Placencia has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison over his death.

The late Friends actor died from accidental drug overdose caused by the acute effects of ketamine use in October 2023, aged 54.

Dr. Placencia was one of five people convicted of crimes relating to his passing.

On Wednesday (03.12.25), he became the first person sentenced in his death, while he has also been ordered to pay a $5,600 fine.

Over the summer, he pleaded guilty to four counts of distributing ketamine, which carries a maximum of 40 years in prison, while prosecutors had demanded the medic be jailed for three years.

Before his sentence was read in a Los Angeles federal court, he apologised to Perry’s family.

He said: “I failed myself. There is no excuse. I can’t undo what’s been done. I know that. I should have protected him, as his mother said. I’m just so sorry.”

In court, the actor’s mother Suzanne Morrison and other family members spoke before Plasencia was sentenced.

She referenced texts in court records where the doctor called her late son a “moron” and speculated how much he would pay for the drugs.

Addressing him directly, she said: “There was nothing moronic about that man,” and noted that he took an oath to protect people, which should have included her son.

Jasveen Sangha, a woman described by prosecutors as the “Ketamine Queen” of North Hollywood, is due to be sentenced on December 10, while Matthew’s former assistant Kenneth Iwamasa will hear his fate on January 14.

In addition, another doctor involved, Dr. Mark Chavez, will be sentenced on December 17, and Erik Fleming – a local man who acted as a go-between for Sangha in her ketamine sales to Matthew – will be sentenced on January 7.