Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Tellico Plains, Tennessee who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Tellico Plains are sometimes sentenced to enroll into a drug rehabilitation program 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 instead of punishing and jailing them has shown to be very effective in Tellico Plains, 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.