Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for people in Big Creek, MS. who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Big Creek, Mississippi are sometimes sent to participate at a drug treatment center 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 instead of punishing and jailing them has shown to be very effective in Big Creek, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.