Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Clifton who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Clifton, Virginia are occasionally sent to enroll into a drug rehabilitation program 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 instead of punishing them has shown to be very beneficial in Clifton, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.