Rehab for court appointed clients are for people in Lancaster, Massachusetts who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Lancaster, MA. are occasionally sentenced to attend a drug rehabilitation facility in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing them has shown to be very successful in Lancaster, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.