Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Towner, North Dakota who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Towner, North Dakota are sometimes sentenced to attend a drug treatment facility in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing them has shown to be very effective in Towner, 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.