Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Newport News who have been sent to drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Newport News, VA. are sometimes sent to participate at a drug treatment facility in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has proven very successful in Newport News, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.