Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Salem who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Salem, New Jersey are often sent to attend a drug rehabilitation facility in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing them has shown to be very effective in Salem, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.