Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for people in Ashmore who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Ashmore, IL. are occasionally sentenced to enroll into a drug treatment program in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing them has shown to be very effective in Ashmore, IL., 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.