Rehab for court appointed clients are for individuals in Bernie who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Bernie, MO. are occasionally sentenced to participate at a drug treatment program in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has proven very successful in Bernie, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.