Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Hamberg who have been sent to drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Hamberg are occasionally sentenced to participate at a drug rehab center in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has shown to be very effective in Hamberg, ND., 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.