Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for people in Dickinson, AL. who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Dickinson, AL. are often sentenced to attend a drug rehab program in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has shown to be very successful in Dickinson, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.