Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Hopedale who have been sent to drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Hopedale are sometimes sentenced to attend a drug rehab center in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has proven very effective in Hopedale, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.