Rehab for court appointed clients are for individuals in Minot who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Minot are often sentenced to attend a drug treatment program in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing them has proven very successful in Minot, North Dakota, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.