Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Sharon who have been sent to drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Sharon, Pennsylvania are often sentenced to attend a drug rehab center in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very effective in Sharon, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.