Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for clients in Mount Hope who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Mount Hope, West Virginia are sometimes sentenced to participate at a drug rehab center 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 instead of punishing them has shown to be very beneficial in Mount Hope, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.