Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Townshend who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Townshend, Vermont are sometimes sentenced to attend a drug treatment program in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has proven very successful in Townshend, Vermont, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.