Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Bergen, New York who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Bergen are often sent to enroll into a drug rehabilitation facility in lieu of other justice actions 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 Bergen, New York, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.