Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Valley Cottage, New York 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 Valley Cottage are sometimes sentenced to participate at a drug rehabilitation program 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 proven very successful in Valley Cottage, New York, 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.