Rehab for court appointed clients are for individuals in Portsmouth, RI. who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Portsmouth, Rhode Island are sometimes sent to enroll into a drug rehabilitation center in lieu of other sentencing options 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 and jailing them has proven very successful in Portsmouth, not only in getting the person 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.