Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for clients in West Peoria who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in West Peoria are often sentenced to enroll into a drug rehab program in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has proven very successful in West Peoria, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.