Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Athol who have been required to attend drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Athol, Massachusetts are often sentenced to enroll into a drug treatment program in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has shown to be very beneficial in Athol, MA., not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.