Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Douglas, ND. 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 Douglas, ND. are sometimes sentenced to attend a drug treatment center in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very effective in Douglas, North Dakota, 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.