Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Raquette Lake who have been sent to drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Raquette Lake, NY. are sometimes sentenced to enroll into a drug rehab center in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has proven very successful in Raquette Lake, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.