Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Scarborough who have been sent to drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Scarborough are often sent to participate at a drug rehabilitation center in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very successful in Scarborough, Maine, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.