Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Sterling, Alaska who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Sterling, Alaska are often sent to enroll into a drug treatment facility in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. 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 beneficial in Sterling, AK., not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.