Rehab for court appointed clients are for people in Whitesburg who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Whitesburg, Kentucky are occasionally sent to participate at a drug treatment center in lieu of other justice actions 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 and jailing them has shown to be very successful in Whitesburg, Kentucky, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.