Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Pittsfield, Pennsylvania who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Pittsfield are occasionally sent to enroll into a drug rehab program in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very beneficial in Pittsfield, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.