Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Banner Elk, North Carolina who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Banner Elk are often sentenced to participate at a drug rehab center 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 them has shown to be very successful in Banner Elk, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.