Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for people in South Shore, South Dakota who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in South Shore, South Dakota are often sentenced to attend a drug treatment center in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has proven very beneficial in South Shore, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.