Rehab for court appointed clients are for people in San Cristobal, New Mexico who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in San Cristobal, NM. are occasionally sentenced to attend a drug treatment center in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very beneficial in San Cristobal, NM., not only in getting the individual 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.