Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for people in Boutte who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Boutte are occasionally sentenced to participate at a drug rehabilitation center in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has proven very effective in Boutte, LA., not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.