Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for individuals in Owensboro who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Owensboro are often sent to enroll into a drug rehabilitation program in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has shown to be very successful in Owensboro, Kentucky, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.