Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for individuals in Ellicottville, New York who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Ellicottville are sometimes sent to participate at a drug treatment facility in lieu of other justice actions 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 proven very successful in Ellicottville, not only in getting the individual 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.