Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in St. Bernard who have been required to attend drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in St. Bernard are occasionally sentenced to attend a drug rehab program in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has proven very helpful in St. Bernard, 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.