Rehab for court appointed clients are for individuals in Golden Meadow, Louisiana who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Golden Meadow, Louisiana are sometimes sentenced to enroll into a drug treatment program in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has shown to be very successful in Golden Meadow, LA., not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.