Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Storm Lake, IA. who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Storm Lake, IA. are often sent to attend a drug treatment facility 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 and jailing them has shown to be very effective in Storm Lake, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.