Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Pilger, Nebraska who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Pilger are often sentenced to attend a drug rehabilitation facility in lieu of other justice actions 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 them has shown to be very successful in Pilger, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.