Criminal justice clients are a large portion of clients who take part in alcohol and drug treatment facilities in Chimacum, WA. and in the USA. Judicial systems in the U.S. are finding it more helpful to rehab individuals who have found their way into the court system for drug related crimes, rather than penalizing them in vain with jail time and other such rulings. It has proven more helpful to tackle the problem of addiction directly, rather than enforce such penalties. The majority of who do not end up in alcohol and drug rehabilitation will typically turn right back up in the criminal justice system, whilst criminal justice clients in alcohol and drug rehabilitation frequently don't fall back into drug use and have a much better chance at staying abstinent and out of the court system entirely.