Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Dow City, IA. who have been required to attend drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Dow City are occasionally sentenced to participate at a drug treatment program in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very successful in Dow City, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.