Rehab for court appointed clients are for clients in New Salem, North Dakota who have been sent to drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in New Salem, North Dakota are often sent to enroll into a drug rehabilitation 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 approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing them has shown to be very effective in New Salem, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.