Criminal justice clients are a significant portion of clientele who take part in drug rehabilitation programs in Cotopaxi and in the USA. Court systems in the U.S. often find it more effective to treat people 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 successful to address the problem of drug addiction more straightforwardly, rather than enforce these sorts of penalties. The majority of who do not make their way to alcohol and drug treatment will often turn right back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, whilst criminal justice clients in drug and alcohol treatment generally don't fall back into drug use and have a far better chance at remaining abstinent and away from the court system entirely.