Criminal justice clients are a large percentage of clients who take part in drug rehab programs in Burlington and across the nation. Court systems in the U.S. are finding it more beneficial to rehabilitate men and women who have ended up in the criminal justice system for crimes relating to drugs, rather than penalizing them to no avail with jail time and other penalties. It has proven more effective to deal with the problem of drug addiction more straightforwardly, rather than enforce these sorts of penalties. Most who do not make their way to alcohol and drug treatment will often wind back up in the criminal justice system, whilst criminal justice clients in drug treatment often don't fall back into drug use and have a far better chance at remaining abstinent and away from the court system for good.