Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Belchertown, Massachusetts who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Belchertown, Massachusetts are often sentenced to participate at a drug treatment 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 rather than punishing them has shown to be very effective in Belchertown, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.