Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for clients in Middleburg who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Middleburg, Ohio are sometimes sent to attend a drug treatment program 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 instead of punishing and jailing them has shown to be very successful in Middleburg, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.