Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Swansboro, NC. who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Swansboro are sometimes sentenced to participate at a drug treatment center in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has shown to be very effective in Swansboro, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.