Criminal justice clients are a considerable percentage of clients who take part in drug rehab programs in Cambridge and across the nation. Judges around the country often find it more helpful to treat individuals who have ended up in the court system for drug related crimes, rather than punishing them to no avail with time in jail and other penalties. It has proven more effective to address the trouble of addiction directly, than to invoke such penalties. Most individuals who do not end up in drug treatment will typically wind back up in the criminal justice system, while criminal justice clients in drug treatment generally don't make the same mistakes and have a much better chance at remaining abstinent and out of the court system completely.