Rehab for court appointed clients are for people in Ashland who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Ashland, VA. are occasionally sent to participate at a drug rehab center in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has proven very effective in Ashland, VA., not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.