Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Dike, Iowa 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 Dike are sometimes sent to participate at a drug rehab center 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 rather than punishing them has proven very effective in Dike, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.