Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for individuals in Friendship who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Friendship, Arkansas are often sent to participate at a drug rehabilitation facility in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is typically 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 Friendship, AR., not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.