Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for individuals in Gates, North Carolina who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Gates, North Carolina are sometimes sentenced to participate at a drug rehabilitation program 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 shown to be very effective in Gates, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.