Rehab for court appointed clients are for individuals in Auburn 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 Auburn are occasionally sent to participate at a drug rehabilitation center in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing them has shown to be very successful in Auburn, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.