Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for individuals in Lakeside, Connecticut who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Lakeside, Connecticut are often sent to participate at a drug rehabilitation center in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very effective in Lakeside, Connecticut, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.