Rehab for court appointed clients are for individuals in Mahtomedi, Minnesota who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Mahtomedi are often sentenced to participate at a drug rehab 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 instead of punishing them has shown to be very successful in Mahtomedi, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.