Criminal justice clients are a large portion of clients who take part in drug and alcohol treatment programs in Berger and in the USA. Judicial systems in the U.S. are finding it more advantageous to rehabilitate people who have found their way into the court system for crimes relating to drugs, rather than punishing them in vain with time in jail and other such rulings. It has proven more effective to tackle the trouble of addiction more straightforwardly, rather than invoke such penalties. Most individuals who do not wind up in drug and alcohol treatment will often turn right back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, while criminal justice clients in drug treatment generally don't fall back into drug use and have a far better chance at remaining sober and out of the court system completely.