Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for individuals in Washburn who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Washburn, ND. are occasionally sentenced to attend a drug rehabilitation facility in lieu of other justice actions 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 shown to be very successful in Washburn, ND., not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.