Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Sunnyvale, California who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Sunnyvale, California are occasionally sentenced to participate at a drug rehab center in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. 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 Sunnyvale, California, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.