Rehab for court appointed clients are for people in Lewis, NY. who have been required to attend drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Lewis, NY. are sometimes sentenced to enroll into a drug rehab center in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has shown to be very successful in Lewis, NY., not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.