Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for people in Saratoga, California who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Saratoga are sometimes sentenced to participate at a drug rehabilitation center in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has shown to be very successful in Saratoga, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.