Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Williamstown, West Virginia 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 Williamstown are sometimes sent to attend a drug rehabilitation center in lieu of other sentencing options 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 shown to be very helpful in Williamstown, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.