Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Ashton, Maryland who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Ashton, MD. are often sent to participate at a drug treatment program in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very successful in Ashton, MD., not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.