Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Wilkinsburg who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania are sometimes sentenced to participate at a drug rehabilitation program in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very effective in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.