Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Choctaw who have been sent to drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Choctaw are sometimes sentenced to attend a drug treatment facility 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 shown to be very effective in Choctaw, Arkansas, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.