Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for clients in Lakewood, NY. who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Lakewood, NY. are sometimes sent to enroll into a drug rehab 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 instead of punishing and jailing them has proven very successful in Lakewood, 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.