Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for clients in Bark River who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Bark River are often sent to attend a drug rehabilitation program in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very successful in Bark River, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.