Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Portland, New York who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Portland are occasionally sent to participate at a drug rehabilitation program in lieu of other justice actions 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 and jailing them has proven very effective in Portland, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.