Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for individuals in Big Laurel who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Big Laurel are sometimes sent to enroll into a drug treatment program in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has shown to be very helpful in Big Laurel, Kentucky, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.