Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Norwich, New York 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 Norwich are occasionally sent to participate at a drug rehab facility in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has shown to be very effective in Norwich, New York, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.