Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Cedar Rapids, Iowa who have been required to attend drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Cedar Rapids are often sent to attend a drug rehab facility in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has proven very helpful in Cedar Rapids, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.