Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Chestnut Hill, MA. 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 Chestnut Hill, MA. are sometimes sent to participate at a drug rehabilitation center in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has proven very effective in Chestnut Hill, not only in getting the individual 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.