Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for individuals in Columbus 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, Pennsylvania are often sent to enroll into a drug rehab program in lieu of other sentencing options 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 and jailing them has shown to be very successful 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.