Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for people in Spruce Pine, AL. who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Spruce Pine, AL. are sometimes sent to attend a drug treatment facility 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 instead of punishing and jailing them has proven very successful in Spruce Pine, Alabama, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.