Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Wilmington who have been required to attend drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Wilmington, Massachusetts are often sent to attend a drug rehab program in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has shown to be very helpful in Wilmington, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.