Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for people in South Otselic, New York who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in South Otselic, New York are occasionally sent to participate at a drug rehabilitation facility in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has proven very successful in South Otselic, not only in getting the person 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.