Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for people in Lebanon who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Lebanon are occasionally sentenced to enroll into a drug treatment program 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 instead of punishing and jailing them has proven very beneficial in Lebanon, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.