Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for people in East Chatham, NY. who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in East Chatham, NY. are occasionally sent to participate at a drug treatment facility in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has shown to be very beneficial in East Chatham, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.