Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for clients in Houghton who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Houghton are sometimes sent to enroll into a drug treatment facility in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. 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 successful in Houghton, IA., not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.