Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for people in Dorena who have been sent to drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Dorena, Oregon are occasionally sentenced to attend a drug treatment center 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 and jailing them has shown to be very beneficial in Dorena, Oregon, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.