Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Oak City who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Oak City are occasionally sentenced to attend a drug rehab program in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has proven very helpful in Oak City, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.