GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - The father of a Greenville man who died nearly two years ago is claiming an at-home ketamine program caused his son’s death.

John Ward is suing Mindbloom, Inc, a Florida ketamine provider, as well as a physician and a physician’s assistant who treated his son, Phillip Ward.

The lawsuit, filed yesterday in Pitt County, says the 27-year-old Ward died on October 29, 2023, of “ketamine toxicity in the presence of hypertension.”

Ketamine is used to treat depression and anxiety. The same month that Ward died, so did “Friends” actor Matthew Perry, from what has been called an out-of-control ketamine addiction, according to prosecutors who charged five people for his death.

In the Ward lawsuit, it claims the Greenville man missed mandatory clinical appointments, subsc

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