Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Abingdon who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Abingdon are sometimes sent to participate at a drug treatment center in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has shown to be very successful in Abingdon, Illinois, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.