Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Astoria, Oregon who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Astoria, OR. are sometimes sent to attend a drug rehabilitation facility in lieu of other justice actions 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 them has proven very effective in Astoria, OR., 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.