Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for individuals in Velpen who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Velpen are often sentenced to enroll into 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 proven very successful in Velpen, Indiana, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.