Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in St. John, North Dakota who have been sent to drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in St. John, North Dakota are sometimes sent to enroll into a drug rehabilitation program in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very successful in St. John, North Dakota, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.