Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Canaan who have been required to attend drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Canaan, CT. are occasionally sent to attend a drug rehabilitation facility in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has shown to be very effective in Canaan, CT., not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.