Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for clients in St. Louis who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in St. Louis, Missouri are occasionally sent to participate at a drug rehab center in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has shown to be very effective in St. Louis, Missouri, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.