Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Charlton Heights who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Charlton Heights are occasionally sent to enroll into a drug treatment facility in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has proven very effective in Charlton Heights, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.