Rehab for court appointed clients are for individuals in Newbern 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 Newbern, Tennessee are often sentenced to participate at a drug treatment center 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 Newbern, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.