Throughout 1996-1999 Robert Downey Jr was charged with numerous cases with the use of drugs including marijuana, cocaine and heroine and went through numerous unsuccessful drug treatments. He had first tried drugs at the age of eight when his father, a drug addict handed him a joint, and developed an addiction. The first case was in the summer April 1996, Robert Downey Jr was arrested after a Los Angeles officer stopped him from speeding then finding heroin, cocaine and an unloaded pistol in his vehicle. A month later while he was on patrol, he transpassed a neighbor's house while on controlled substances and was found asleep on the son’s bed. He was sentenced to three years of probation and was required to go to rehab. In 1997, Robert Downey