Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Fairmont 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 Fairmont, West Virginia are sometimes sent to enroll into a drug treatment 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 instead of punishing them has proven very successful in Fairmont, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.