Criminal justice clients in Augusta, WV. often end up in alcohol and drug treatment facilities because they were convicted of drug related crimes, whether they were selling drugs or were in the possession of or high on drugs. Some courts put these types of individuals into the alcohol and drug treatment system because they feel that treating these individuals will be more productive for the culture at large and for the individual, rather than putting them in prison with no rehabilitation at all. This has been verified to be quite successful not only in helping and rehabilitating these criminal justice clients in Augusta, WV., but also in keeping them abstinent and in a number of situations away from the criminal justice system once and for all.