Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Columbus, MS. who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Columbus, MS. are sometimes sentenced to enroll into a drug rehabilitation program in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has shown to be very effective in Columbus, 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.