Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Rocklake who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Rocklake, North Dakota are often sent to attend a drug treatment center in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very effective in Rocklake, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.