Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Deridder, Louisiana who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Deridder, LA. are often sentenced to participate at a drug treatment program in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has proven very helpful in Deridder, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.