Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Amsterdam who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Amsterdam, NY. are sometimes sent to attend a drug treatment center in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very successful in Amsterdam, NY., not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.