Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Pleasant Hill who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Pleasant Hill are often sent to participate at a drug treatment center 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 rather than punishing and jailing them has proven very effective in Pleasant Hill, CA., not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.