Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Athens, WV. 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 Athens, WV. are occasionally sent to enroll into a drug rehabilitation program in lieu of other sentencing options 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 them has shown to be very effective in Athens, WV., 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.