Rehab for court appointed clients are for clients in Portsmouth who have been required to attend drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Portsmouth, New Hampshire are occasionally sent to enroll into a drug rehabilitation program in lieu of other sentencing options 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 Portsmouth, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.