Don ajiya da rarraba methamphemine, sama da shekaru uku, Douglas-Junior ya yi barazanar daurin kurkuku tun daga shekaru goma zuwa ɗaurin rai da rai. Duk da haka, an yanke wa Cameron hukuncin shekara biyar, domin, bisa ga alkalin, ya hadu da sakamakon.
A shekara ta 2007, hukumomin jihar California sun riga sun kammala wasan Cameron Douglas don labarin don ba da doka ta caccaniya. A shekara ta 2009, an tsare shi a Dooman ɗakunan a Gassa a Manhattan a ofishin aiki na New York na Hukumar Magunguna. A yayin bincike a Cureron Douglas, jami'an sun sami adadin methamphetamine, kimanin darajar wacce a cikin kasuwar baƙar fata ce 18 dala.
Catherine Zeta-Jones ya yi kokarin taimakawa dan mijinta. Ta rubuta wasiƙa a kan wasiƙun kotu, a cikin abin da aka ce, yaro mai daraja bai cutar da kowa ba. Douglas-Junior yayi barazanar ɗaukar 'yanci na tsawon shekaru goma kafin a raira rai. Mafi m, an ba shi shekaru 5 kawai saboda jumar su yi matukar bakin ciki da Ubansa da kuma masu samar da Hollywood Douglas da Kirk Douglas.
Cameron Douglas, ta hanyar, kuma dan wasan kwaikwayo ne, haka kuma, a fim din "Dabi'un dangin" dabi'un iyali "na 2003, zaka iya ganin duk Douglasv.