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\\u201cI was a hard case, and it seems like I needed to learn my lesson the hard way,\\u201d writes Cameron Douglas, son of actor Michael Douglas, in his affecting memoir of crime and punishment. \\xa0 The author grew up between well-to-do households where it was a party trick for him as a child to pass a joint among the beautiful people.\\xa0 By the age of 25, he was injecting cocaine three times an hour while realizing that \\u201cthe worst-case scenario has already happened,\\u201d his opportunities in the show-business world long since tossed away. The worst case, though, had yet to develop: in and out of rehab, as well as the penal system, proceeding from juvenile detention to time in a federal prison full of warring racial factions, all brought on by a fierce addiction to heroin and a drug-selling operation meant to support it.