Treating individuals who are addicted and dependent to drugs or alcohol and have landed somewhere in the criminal justice system has proven a successful method of eliminating future drug related offenses by those that do become rehabilitated. For criminal justice clients in Bluewater, New Mexico that do agree to take part in treatment in alcohol and drug treatment facilities, even if not of their own choice as is often court ordered, these persons have a far better chance at addressing the root of the problem so that they can stay abstinent and away from the streets drug related criminal activity. The costs to the criminal justice system having to do with these drug related offenses is also affected beneficially when criminal justice clients are helped in drug and alcohol treatment facilities in Bluewater, New Mexico instead of jail time or other harsh punishment.