Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Pelican Rapids, Minnesota who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Pelican Rapids, Minnesota are sometimes sentenced to attend a drug treatment program in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing them has shown to be very helpful in Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.