Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Mountain, North Dakota who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Mountain are sometimes sentenced to participate at a drug rehab facility in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. 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 Mountain, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.