Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Chatham, New Jersey who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Chatham, New Jersey are sometimes sent to attend a drug rehabilitation facility 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 rather than punishing them has shown to be very helpful in Chatham, New Jersey, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.