Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for individuals in University Heights, IA. who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in University Heights, IA. are sometimes sentenced to attend a drug treatment center in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very helpful in University Heights, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.