Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for clients in Blue Ridge who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Blue Ridge are often sentenced to attend a drug rehab center 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 instead of punishing them has shown to be very helpful in Blue Ridge, VA., not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.