{"id":153864,"date":"2025-12-11T09:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=153864"},"modified":"2025-12-11T09:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:29:06","slug":"police-investigate-psy-over-remote-sleeping-pill-prescriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/police-investigate-psy-over-remote-sleeping-pill-prescriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate PSY over remote sleeping pill prescriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A controversial search of PSY\u2019s belongings<\/h2>\n<p><strong>PSY<\/strong> found himself at the center of controversy on December 4, 2025, when <strong>Seoul\u2019s Seodaemun Police Station<\/strong> carried out a search and seizure of his agency and even his vehicle. Investigators took his mobile phone and began digital forensics to dig into claims that he received prescriptions for psychotropic sleeping medications without in-person consultations from 2022 up until very recently.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities also found out that his manager, not PSY himself, picked up medications like <strong>Xanax<\/strong> and <strong>Stilnox<\/strong>, which are prohibited under Korea\u2019s Medical Service Act. These medications are supposed to be collected directly by the patient unless there\u2019s a rare exception, and violating this rule can bring fines or even prison time.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KoreanUpdates\/status\/1999018076709228999?s=20\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Police raid <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Psy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Psy<\/a>&#39;s office, vehicle, and seized Psy&#39;s phone over the suspicion of violating the Medical act.<\/p>\n<p>Psy is suspected of receiving prescriptions for psychotropic sleeping pills (Xanax and Stilnox) without in-person consultation at a hospital since 2022. It was revealed\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/veyh57iRTL\">pic.twitter.com\/veyh57iRTL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; KoreanUpdates! (@KoreanUpdates) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KoreanUpdates\/status\/1999018076709228999?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>What police found and why it matters<\/h2>\n<p>The police didn\u2019t stop searching at PSY\u2019s agency. They also raided the hospital involved, securing medical records as part of their criminal investigation. The attending physician reportedly denied wrongdoing, insisting the prescriptions came from legitimate remote consultations. Meanwhile, PSY\u2019s agency confirmed the raid and stated they fully cooperated. They explained that the artist originally started remote consultations during the COVID times and kept using the method due to his chaotic schedule. They admitted there had been some negligence but firmly denied any misuse, false names, or illegal double-dosing.<\/p>\n<h2>PSY\u2019s side of the story<\/h2>\n<p>The artist\u2019s agency, <strong>P-Nation<\/strong>, expressed regret over the situation, acknowledging that having a third party collect the medication was an oversight. Back in August, they had already apologized for the \u201cproxy receipt\u201d and clarified that this was not a case of \u201cproxy prescription.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cIn the process, there were instances where a third party received the medication on his behalf, and the police investigation is currently underway. Once again, we apologize for the concern caused,\u201d the agency said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>They emphasized that PSY has chronic sleep issues and takes his medication exactly as prescribed. As police consider summoning him for questioning, the investigation continues, and the public is watching closely to see how this high-profile pills controversy is solved.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cPsy was diagnosed with chronic sleep disorder and has been taking sleeping pills according to medical prescriptions. The medication was taken under medical guidance, following prescribed dosages, and there was no proxy prescription,\u201d P-Nation expressed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A controversial search of PSY\u2019s belongings PSY found himself at the center of controversy on December 4, 2025, when Seoul\u2019s Seodaemun Police Station carried out a search and seizure of his agency and even his vehicle. Investigators took his mobile phone and began digital forensics to dig into claims that he received prescriptions for psychotropic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":153866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-153864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153864"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=153864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}