Rehab for court appointed clients are for clients in Montpelier who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Montpelier, VA. are sometimes sentenced to attend a drug rehabilitation facility 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 Montpelier, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.