Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Park River, North Dakota who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Park River are occasionally sent to participate at a drug rehabilitation facility in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very beneficial in Park River, ND., not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.