Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for individuals in Mound Bayou, MS. who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Mound Bayou are often sentenced to participate at a drug rehabilitation program 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 rather than punishing and jailing them has proven very successful in Mound Bayou, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.