Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for people in Fontana Dam, North Carolina who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Fontana Dam, NC. are often sent to attend a drug rehab center in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has proven very effective in Fontana Dam, NC., 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.