He has appeared in several films, among them Jackie Chan's Mr. Nice Guy (1997), It Runs in the Family (2003), National Lampoon's Adam & Eve (2005) and Loaded (2008).

In 2007, he was charged with felony possession of a controlled substance after police officers found a syringe with liquid cocaine in a car he was in.

Due to the large amount of the drug seized, Douglas was charged with intent to distribute.

[4] On April 20, 2010, Douglas was sentenced to five years in prison for possessing heroin and dealing large amounts of methamphetamine and cocaine out of a New York hotel room.

[5][6] Michael Douglas publicly assumed blame for "being a bad father" but said that without prison intervention, Cameron "was going to be dead or somebody was gonna kill him.