Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for individuals in North Liberty who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in North Liberty are often sentenced to attend a drug treatment program in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing them has shown to be very successful in North Liberty, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.