Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for people in Columbus, Nebraska who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Columbus are occasionally sentenced to enroll into a drug rehabilitation center in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has shown to be very beneficial in Columbus, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.