Rehab for court appointed clients are for individuals in Fredericksburg, VA. who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Fredericksburg are often sentenced to participate at 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 approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very effective in Fredericksburg, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.