Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Waverly who have been sent to drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Waverly are sometimes sent to participate at a drug rehabilitation facility in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has shown to be very effective in Waverly, New York, not only in getting the individual 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.