Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Dubuque, IA. who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Dubuque, IA. are often sent 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 them has shown to be very successful in Dubuque, Iowa, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.