Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Montrose, New York who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Montrose are occasionally sentenced to participate at a drug rehabilitation program in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has shown to be very beneficial in Montrose, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.