The word that jumped out at me from the press conference account was "molly."
I'm not a health care field person at all, but some of my acquaintances are, and they take "molly" very seriously, it can kill people.
If the relationship between the actor, and the brothers to whom he wrote a check, was that of drug supplier and drug user, then the money question has an even nastier angle than i suspected, naive as I am.