Criminal justice clients are a significant portion of clients who take part in alcohol and drug treatment programs in Chestnut Mountain and across the nation. Judicial systems around the country are finding it more advantageous to rehab individuals who have found their way into the criminal justice system for drug related crimes, rather than penalizing them to no avail with jail time and other penalties. It has proven more helpful to handle the problem of addiction directly, rather than enforce these sorts of penalties. Most who do not wind up in alcohol and drug rehabilitation will typically turn right back up in the criminal justice system, while criminal justice clients in alcohol and drug treatment often don't fall back into drug use and have a far better chance at staying abstinent and away from the court system for good.