Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for clients in Gardendale, AL. who have been sent to drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Gardendale, AL. are occasionally sentenced to attend a drug rehab facility in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has proven very effective in Gardendale, Alabama, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.