Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Burlington, ND. who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Burlington, North Dakota are sometimes sentenced to participate at a drug treatment center in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very effective in Burlington, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.