Rehab for court appointed clients are for people in Richfield Springs, New York who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Richfield Springs, New York are sometimes sentenced to attend a drug rehab program in lieu of other sentencing options 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 Richfield Springs, New York, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.