Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Kent, Connecticut who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Kent, Connecticut are sometimes sent to participate at a drug treatment center in lieu of other sentencing options 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 them has shown to be very beneficial in Kent, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.