Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in St. Simons Island who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in St. Simons Island, Georgia are often sent to enroll into a drug rehab program in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing them has shown to be very successful in St. Simons Island, GA., 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.