Criminal justice clients are a large percentage of clients who are currently taking part in alcohol and drug treatment programs in Clay, Kentucky and in the USA. Court systems around the country are finding it more effective to rehab people who have wound up in the court system for crimes relating to drugs, instead of penalizing them in vain with time in jail and other such rulings. It has proven more effective to tackle the problem of drug addiction directly, than to invoke such penalties. The majority of individuals who do not end up in alcohol and drug rehab will typically wind back up in the criminal justice system, while criminal justice clients in drug and alcohol treatment generally don't fall back into drug use and have a far better chance at staying abstinent and out of the court system entirely.