Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Meadow Creek 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 Meadow Creek are often sent to participate at a drug rehab program in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very successful in Meadow Creek, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.