Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Springfield who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Springfield are sometimes 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 proven very effective in Springfield, OR., not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.