Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for individuals in Douglas who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Douglas, Alabama are sometimes sentenced to enroll into a drug treatment center in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has proven very successful in Douglas, Alabama, 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.