Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for people in Cedar Bluff, Virginia who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Cedar Bluff are sometimes sentenced to attend a drug rehabilitation program 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 effective in Cedar Bluff, 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.