Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for individuals in Owatonna, MN. who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Owatonna, MN. are sometimes sent to enroll into a drug rehabilitation facility in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing them has shown to be very successful in Owatonna, 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.