Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for clients in Ernest who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Ernest are occasionally sent to participate at a drug rehab program in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has shown to be very helpful in Ernest, Pennsylvania, 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.