Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Starkweather, North Dakota who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Starkweather, ND. are occasionally sent to participate at a drug rehab center 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 rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very effective in Starkweather, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.